And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

It is time at last for all the gods to be silent.

Darkness is a kind of visual silence, and monks love it.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

It would never have crossed her mind spontaneously that somebody might actually need silence. That silence helps you to go inward, that anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs...

Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be.

Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts

…there are times when silence is a poem.

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s...

clean-swept room” whilch silence alone can create

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Yet it isn’t the gold that I’m wantingSo much as just finding the gold.It’s the great, big, broad land ‘way up yonder,It’s the forests where silence has lease;It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder,It’s...

When you believe your lie, it will curse your life forever.

In general, silence often reflects ambiguity on the part of the listener as the observer wishes to understand the other’s experience.

Za njih, nas nema. Ćutimo.Kada govorimo, sebe isključujemo iz zajednice i poretka.Kada čovek misli, on ćuti.

Young children begin very early to internalize information that either encourages or discourages self-disclosure. Cues are intuitively understood. Most of what we feel is unexamined and articulated. Cultural norms are unwittingly absorbed. We learn when...

You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don’t want the accountability of starting it.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even...

At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they’re returning. It is in the...

I turned my face up to his. I could hardly look at him the same way. I was crying without realizing I’d started. “You made a deal with Hank. You saved my life. Why would...

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Connection with yourself only comes in moments of silence.

Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing system that is far more precise and far more accurate and far more powerful than anything that is contained in...

Ah, and d’ye judge a thing solely upon size alone?”She made a choking sound.

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

What we can’t speak, we say in silence.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when...

What’s said in silence is best viewed in darkness. I learned that while reading a bowl of Alphabet Soup.

Listen closely… the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream...

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

In complete silence you can’t hear a thing. Just ask a deaf person—but ask them with your fingers.

He shook his head, just looking at me. – “What?” I asked.- “Nothing” he said.- “Why are you looking at me like that?”Augustus half smiled. “Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and...

Silence gradually spread its great, fragile butterfly wings across the ward. The sun had disappeared, replaced by grey and rain. This particular month of July was reading the script for March.

Noise is democratic; silence, aritocratic

The silence, she thought, was remarkable: a perfect, shimmering thing, and fragile. Like glass, if it shattered, it would never come back together again.

She didn’t want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and...

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

I don’t think…” then you shouldn’t talk, said the Hatter.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Silence explains a lot of things.It tells us why people are who they not supposed to be.It’s the fear of being afraid.It’s because of their own safety.Sometimes it becomes an unexplainable feeling.It shows the insecureties,...

They still didn’t talk on the bus, but it had become a less confrontational silence. Almost friendly. (But not quite.)

Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.