365 quotes found
“Real compassion only exists in silence”
“[W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much.”
“Silence, like salt, only seems to be weightless. In reality, if one allows time to dampen it, it grows heavy as an anvil.”
“Sometimes I struggled to say something meaningful only to learn that silence is just as powerful as words.”
“But once, in his anger, Aidan had asked me whether I thought I had wasted my life, and I had told him no. No, I had not. But I had been wrong. And Tom Cardle has been right. For I had known everyth...”
“Silence is often a measure of success.”
“I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that?”
“In the summer,on fine evenings, I love to drive late andalone in the scented forests, and when I havereached a dark part stop, and sit quite still, listeningto the nightingales repeating their litt...”
“Silence is also a form of speaking. Theyre exactly alike. Its a basic component of language. Were always selecting what we say and what we dont. Why do we say one thing and not the other? And we do...”
“I sit beside the momentThat stares at silenceBefore anything could happen”
“The best way to support terrorism is to be silent.”
“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”
“One's silence can be deafening indeed,but it's also quite satisfying once in a while to actually hear one's thoughts just to reassure a presence.”
“He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald)”
“I knowThat I can't sit hereAnd expect my silenceTo evoke changeWithout reason.”
“My silence is my self-defence.”
“Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say.”
“There are always a million words behind the silence.”
“But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.”
“Mass media has convinced us to think that silence is only supposed to happen as a manifestation of supreme actualization, where both parties are so at peace with their emotional connection that it ...”
