365 quotes found
“If I didnt look too closely, I wouldnt see that Tiras wasnt there. If I didnt breathe too deeply, I wouldnt feel the hollow echo in my empty chest. If I didnt move too quickly, I wouldnt reach any ...”
“that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.”
“Silence is the small mans only defense.”
“Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a...”
“Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?”
“When we are young the noise of general conversation seems much the most fun. When we grow up we discover the possibilities of the tete-a-tete. In maturity the monologue habit sets is. But now at la...”
“He looked down at the street, and the unbroken whiteness, and watched his foot touch the snow and listened to the slight crunching sound as he stepped forward. He looked back at his footprints. The...”
“Silence heals nothing, fixes nothing, and unlocks nothing. Just because you dont say something doesnt make it any less true.”
“I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person.”
“Best of the conversations are sometimes made in silence..”
“I defendNot my voice, but my silence”
“It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.”
“The mansion was as silent as I wished the inside of my head could be. No noise not even a ragged inhale of breath or a whispered word. Truly blissful.”
“A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence never lies. Silence is God's final advantage. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ou...”
“More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.”
“The room rang with her voice, then with silence. In the shaded darkness, silence had the quality of a looming dragon. It seemed to roar and the roar to reverberate, to dominate. To escape from it w...”
“Why are we so afraid of silence? Teenagers cannot study without their records; they walk along the street with their transistors. Grownups are as bad if not worse; we turn on the TV or the radio th...”
“To admire me is to admire my silence,Petra HermansSeptember 5, 2016”
“And then there's silence. Though is silence the right word when, through the quiet, the air is so charged, electricity crackles deafeningly without making a sound?”
“If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?”
