She usually worked at night, claiming that the racket he made about the house distracted her during the day; she needed silence, total silence, in which to pursue her inspiration – else it fled away...

He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Music is the silence between the notes.

At times we feel some thing is going to pierce the silence we are living in, After a while we realize its the silence

I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun.

I don’t trust mutes. By their silence, I wonder what they’re hiding. The lost Templar treasure, mysteries of the universe, my love for you—who knows what they could have hidden away.

I’ve always thought it would be nice to have the house to myself for a while. This place gets so loud all theme and there are always so many people in it. But I guess...

Silence upon silence, with a heaping pile of extra silence.

The limitless, lowering sky, the long stretches of motionless empty prairie, the silence, complete right down to the absence of birdsong — who knows what decides a man to leave most of his words unspoken?

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

nothing is lifelesswhen the moon writes its screedon the silvern sand silence-From the poem:”The Universe In Blossom

I dined with Legrandin on the terrace of his house by moonlight. “There is a charming quality, is there not,” he said to me, “in this silence; for hearts that are wounded, as mine is,...

IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.

…all winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence – in the same way grief is gnawing at me – slowly, imperceptibly… consuming…

Go back,go back to sleep.Yes, you are allowed.You who have no Love in your heart,you can go back to sleep.The power of Loveis exclusive to us,you can go back to sleep.I have been burntby the...

Listen to your heart in silence and peace, as through fear you only channel fear.

Silence often speaks louder than words. To be heard is nice to be understood is divine.

Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness. In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego...

Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make...

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

She says his eyes address her like the silence of the snow.

You don’t talk much, do you, angel-face? I like that in a woman.

Always, just beyond all these things, was the silver sea, the lace border around all land like the silence around sounds or the unknowns beyond all knowledge.

−,Peor que los gritos?−Mucho peor −dijo, asintiendo con la cabeza−. Mira, en una discusión, al menos, sabes qué es lo que está pasando. O tienes una idea. El silencio es… Puede ser cualquier cosa. Es...

Ein Sadhu hat mir einmal etwas Interessantes gesagt. Ich weiss nicht, ob es stimmt, aber mir kam es sinnvoll vor. Er meinte, achtundneunzig von hundert Gedanken hat man schon mal gehabt. Auch die Gedanken wiederholen...

Gold is the dazzling element of silence. Arsenic is the untraceable one.

I don’t have the body for this,” I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. “No curves.”Jev’s eyes held mine. “Are you asking my opinion?

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words...

Don’t ever underestimate the value and power of doing nothing sometime.

You’ll learn. Silence and apathy are the best ways of saying Fuck You

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

to be inside ye.

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which – grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, “Let there be no compulsion in religion” (2:256) – is arguably the first mandate for...

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep river, brighter than all save the eyes of Eleonora; and, winding stealthily about...

In exchange for my silence, I want a box of quiet. Empty—and full. That’s also how I like my morning coffee at night.

How quiet it is,’ Danny said, digging in his knapsack for the canteen full of water he had brought. ‘You don’t realize how scary it is, having a whole mountain on top of you, until...

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with...

We switch to another language– not our invented language or the language we’ve learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time...

Silence is equality.” I’m sure the deaf would agree too.

I once took a vow of silence that lasted almost two years. Then, on my second birthday, I relented and started talking.

silence can be words but words cannot be silence

El silencio es el lienzo en blanco, el marco, sobre lo que trabajas; y no tratas de ahogarlo.

There, in the silence that’s never quite silent, I realized that, if there are at least seven thousand wants to speak, there are at least seven thousand ways to listen.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.And there are those who talk, and without...

The acrid odor of overloaded circuitry permeated the air, the horrid smell witness that at least one of his senses was working as sights and sounds became one with the unknown. Eventually he collapsed to...