Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

Silence is the medium of source between you and your ego consciousness

I talked to him on Christmas, and again on March 5th. Neither one of us hung up the phone that whole time.

Being negative, that’s no good. Also, being no good is no good. By your silence I can tell that you love me. Either that or you’re a disciple of Helen Keller.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust,” Mr. Carpenter had said once. “Silence betrays.

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the...

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

To Hear What Silence Is Saying, You Must Have Inner Peace. A Violent Mind Can’t Understand It….

First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an...

me”in the time between sunset and darkness.

The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to...

You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the...

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

…what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave.

I love silent conversations accompanied by a soft caress on my skin and my head on your chest listening to your heart desires.

We sat and drank in silence. It was something I appreciated about Jesse. He didn’t feel the need to fill every moment with talk or some sort of silly exchange.

The New Man is the most important things that is happening in the world today.The new man will have to find new forms of communication, working together and sharing, because the old man and the...

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

There is a silence that comes to a house when no one can sleep. I guess it’s the price of love; I know it’s not cheap.

The silence wasn’t uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted–the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.

poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.

The sound is gone. There’s nothing left but the insomniac throbbing of crickets. Crickets in the garden, the courtyard, the back courtyard. Close, domestic, identifiable. And those out in the country. Between all of them...

Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However,...

Quando hai un problema fermati, fermati, fermati. Ascoltalo e cerca di trovare la risposta dentro di te. Perchè c’è. Dentro di te c’è qualcosa che ti tiene insieme, che ti aiuta, c’è una vocina. Ascoltala.

This is a tale of woe. This is a tale of sorrow. A love denied, a love restored, to live beyond tomorrow. Lest we think silence is the place to hide a heavy heart, remember,...

Do you think they’re going to buy that a guy in tacky leather chaps dances like this?” I scoffed when he twirled me back into his embrace. “Keep it up, and I’ll put you in...

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat the bone of displacement was forever stuck, it was wrong to...

Now, Emily didn’t make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

I’m very depressed how in this country you can be told “That’s offensive” as though those two words constitute an argument.

…she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who were shy, who imagined that passion and tenderness were two things...

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

And it was so still. The silence of the fields seemed to enter and move familiarly through the house. The wind used the open hall. He felt that he was in a mysterious, quiet, cool...

Además de esclavo de las palabras, a veces se es también esclavo de los silencios, sobre todo de los más cobardes.

On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.

Silence promotes the presence of God, prevents many harsh and proud words, and suppresses many dangers in the way of ridiculing or harshly judging our neighbors … If you are faithful in keeping silence when...

THE TRUTH OF THE VERY SMALLWhen he is born, a baby’s head is filled with the knowledge of space. The circumference of his skull is as infinite as the twirlings of the universe. His eyes...

There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.

The streets are silent / The playgrounds are still /The noise has moved elsewhere / Into our homes / Into our hearts / It’s been too long /Children are not where they belong /The streets,...

You may not have said anything, but you’re right—silence is the best response.

My arms and legs fell asleep. Silence of the Limbs.

You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which...

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

‘Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

Silence is golden…but in times of tyranny it is blood red

I onda smo išli još dugo kroz šumu, ne govoreći ništa, ali ovaj put je u toj tišini bilo neke ljepote, bilo je naše savezništvo.

A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.