Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?A: Because you know I will never answer.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

You were almost like a haiku: said so little, but meant so much.

I just realized that sleep sometimes is the only precious wage for the hard working man.

The language of nature is silence.

Penetrate deep into the word “Om”. Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden...

It’s kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.

SilenceIt has a sound, a fullness.It’s heavy with sigh of tree,and space between breaths.It’s ripe with pause between birdsongand crash of surf. It’s golden they say.But no one tells us it’s addictive.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

are a great trouble.”She shook her head, not bothering to reply this time, and started marching to the door.

And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest musicleaving tears on the glass,which is what music does to memost of the timebut silence too. and rain.

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.

It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

If silence is the admission of guilt, then she must be really guilty, because last night I asked her a question and instead of answering, she went to sleep for eight hours.

We both tried to speak at the same time, and ended up remaining silent the whole night. That’s when I realized we were in love.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their...

Maybe they hurt so much that the only way they can say it, is to say nothing

Christmas; silence breathed childlike anticipation in your heart.

Speech one may regret,Silence no sorrow begets,Humility be born before honour,Soft answer turns wrath’s corner

Silence is a source of Great Strength.

There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort...

Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want...

I’m not telling you to be quiet. I’m just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like.

And there are some birds that stay year-round. Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.

I had a day when I was busy in the world, where the activity created a turmoil on the surface of my consciousness like waves on the surface of the ocean, which made it difficult...

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from...

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

Kyoko sniffs, unable to speak. Sometimes saying nothing means most of all.

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you’re in a forest and everything’s really quiet, except there’s still this sound you can’t hear.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn’t either.

In this landI have made myself sick with silenceIn this landI have wandered, lostIn this landI hunkered down to seeWhat will become of me.In this landI held myself tightSo as not to scream.-But I did...

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

Fish held the silence for so long that I had to restrain myself from prodding her. That’s never a good idea. Sometimes people hesitate because they don’t have the courage to come out with whatever...

The noise hides the silence. It does not destroy the silence. (Le bruit cache le silence. – Il ne détruit le silence.)

Your silence will not protect you.

Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.

When the mind is silent, you can listen to your heart and remember that everything is Love and that you are that Love.

How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.

I always thought I was an extrovert until I became a theatre major. Then I realised I just didn’t like silence.