365 quotes found
“She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.”
“Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts”
“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
“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 with a fiercer life becau...”
“...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.”
“Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.”
“I'm a master of speaking silentlyall my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.”
“Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and ...”
“Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.”
“Your very silence shows you agree.”
“What we can't speak, we say in silence.”
“But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.”
“Hey Meg! Communication implies sound. Communion doesn't.' He sent her a brief image of walking silently through the woods, the two of them alone together., their feet almost noiseless on the rusty ...”
“Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.”
“There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.”
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
“Small, red, and upright he waited,gripping his new bookbag tightin one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other,while the first snows of winterfloated down on his eyela...”
“The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.”
“It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.”
“When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only af...”
