Ears Quote by John Dryden

Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see…

— James Russell Lowell

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

— Matsuo Basho

At times we feel something is going to pierce the silence we are living in; after a while we realize it's the silence.

— Gopichand Lagadapati

“Silence scares us because it doesn’t seem natural. Sometimes I wonder if we are so afraid of what we might hear in the silence…

— Gareth J. Goossen

Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.

— Terry Tempest Williams

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear,…

— Howard Thurman

Silence is the residue of fear.

— Clint Smith

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

— Sophocles

“Silence will speak If given an ear; Stillness is the movement Of our atmosphere; Circles have sides When we draw the line; Death is…

— Alaina Odessa

Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we…

— Barbara Hurd

“Sometimes, silence become louder than our very fears.”

— Mladen Đorđević

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow