From the vast, invisible ocean of moonlight overhead fell, here and here, a slender, broken stream that seemed to plash against the intercepting branches and trickle to earth, forming small white pools among the clumps...

If I asked you to do something for me, I don’t suppose you’d listen?” When he had my attention, he continued, “I’m going to take you home. Try to forget tonight happened. Try to act...

I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.

If you really wish to contribute anything worthy to the world; offer your silence with smile.

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise...

Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace.

Yes, please,” she whispered. She wanted to engrave the sight of him thus, about to make love to her, in her mind.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

She drifted down into the water, letting it engulf her body until even her face was underwater. The silence was delicious, just the sound of her own heartbeat in her ears.

On a ship, knowing when to be silent is just as important as knowing when to speak.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

When you are at the edge of life it will be either silence or violence

continuamos viviendo cada uno a su manera, incluso ahora. Por profunda y fatal que sea la perdida, por importante que sea lo que nos han arrancado de las manos, aunque nos hayamos convertido en alguien...

Silence is downright noisy when you’re a loud thinker like I am. Alone and quiet, it’s like a networking event in my mind all the time.

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you’ll never be and you need...

Stigma’s power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label...

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

And so silence and …darkness hold happiness and joy?” he said softly.”Assuredly,” she said, “provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything.

Of silence, I can say only what I heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave–and so speech isn’t itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.

Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the day seem shorter, exploring with a long-drawn note the solitude that pressed it on every side, but...

After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend to its strange and beautiful texture, which of course, it...

For a moment, there was silnece, and then at Brooke’s nod, the rest of the Squad, minus me, chimed in. “Yes, sir.”I said nothing. For one thing, I wasn’t exactly keen on speaking in unison,...

Only the deceased could hear this quietness, he thought; no wonder they were tossing and turning in their graves seven feet under the ground – they cannot take it, they want out.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

For ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped there was so little public discussion of the bomb or of radioactivity that even the Chugoku Shinbun, the major newspaper of the city where the atomic...

that’s what happens when you don’t pay your book fines.

I”, to achieve enlightenment. I can feel a deepening thirst to die, to dissolve into the silence, in my heart and being.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

How small life is hereand how big nothingness.The sky, tired of light,has given everything to the snow.The two trees bowtheir heads to each other.Clouds cross the world’ssilence in a circle dance

Quite often it’s not about what is said, but what isn’t. And even when it’s spoken, read between the lines. Listening with the heart is just as important as hearing with the mind.

I’d rather be not the light in your lifeThe bright day might make me obscureI’d rather be the cold darknessFor it remains, unseen, uncertain and unsure

Most of the conversations we are ever likely to have with people are the things we do not and cannot say

As long as we take thought, we will continue to matter”.

Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy’s words.

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.” I whirled around to find the real Patch standing in the fitting room behind me. He was wearing jeans and a snug white...

There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest...

For 1,300 days of Sarajevo’s drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, … But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.

You remain so silent,as carried away,through mist of your thoughts,so dark and so deep,and even awake same as when asleep,waiting for enlightenment of a newborn day.I’m bound to your silence,to the core i’m bound,to delicate...

It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant’s afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it’s been many years now since my children ruled my life,...

I’m not frightened of a bit of silence.

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals....

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

The thing that seemed like silence must have been the endless cry of all the crickets and locusts in the world, rising and falling.(“The Wide Net”)

We sit in silence for a minute. Thinking about the freedom we don’t have and the future we can’t control.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They’ve never seen an argument. There’s never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end...

I had a dream about you. You were the lead guitarist in a band with no voice, and you were holding auditions for lead singer. Everybody in line in front of me and behind me...