Ancient Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes…

— Cecil Castellucci

A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The…

— George Arnold

God is silent. Everything comes out of silence.

— Mother Meera

“There was only the stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the…

— Cheryl Strayed

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

— Richard Flecknoe

Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the…

— Gordon Lightfoot

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

— Ray Bradbury

Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this…

— Tillie Olsen

All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan…

— Henry Van Dyke

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley