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.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, ‘What is the sound of the waterfall?’ ‘Silence,’ he finally told me.

I know a lot about forming personal connections with people. Not from, you know, personal interaction or anything, but from reading about it alone, in silence.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.

Signs offer a way to speak, yet keep the room perfectly silent.

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road...

In silence – and in self-defense – I figured things out in my own little way.

The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence.

I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be...

I’ve been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silenceso far, without spilling a drop.

We sit for a few more moments, although there’s really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language....

After Death, White Smoke with Dark Silence

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment.

In love, you can sometimes feel a melting and merging with the other person, and the two becomes one. The physical bodies are still separate, but something beyond the bodies creates a oneness. It opens...

When deep inside you feel frustrated and depressed, scream the silence, scream it so loud that you never hear it again.

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

That was probably the most touching moment of silence I’ve stood through.

Writers shouldn’t fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. Criticism is healthy. It gets people thinking about your work and, even better, it gets them talking and arguing. But as for silence — it is...

Silence is so freaking loud

I”divides me from God.

They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable they were of breaking it.

If you haven’t guessed it already,” I said, something fervent and resonating slipping into my tone, “I need you, too.””Is that a yes?” he asked, pushing his fingers through my hair, fanning it out around...

In the woods it was not so much that it was quiet as that the few sounds were loud and distinct, not the orchestra tuning-up of the city but individual grace notes. Birdcalls broken into...

Silence is more than observation; it informs from non-observation.

I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.

But the night doesn’t swallow her up.Everywhere she goes she is still there;the silence is as big as herself.

There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.

Welcome home, m’love.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

The silence after the movie just says everything. I wasn’t expecting [the ending] to be that powerful.