365 quotes found
“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 out...”
“Words cant explain everything.But silence never fails to mean something”
“Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.”
“Sometimes I feel like Im not solid. Im hollow. Theres nothing behind my eyes. Im a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.”
“Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.”
“A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two”
“The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud.”
“-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat the bone of displacement was forever stuck, it was wrong to talk ab...”
“A kind of silence, if I may say, was walking through the house, and, like most silence, it was not silent at all: it rapped on the doors, echoed in the clocks, creaked on the stairs, leaned forward...”
“I see myself abandoned, solitary, thrown into a cell without dimensions, where light and shadows are silent phantoms. Within my inner self I find the silence I am seeking. But it leaves me so beref...”
“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.”
“She drifted down into the water, letting it engulf her body until even her face was underwater. The silence was delicious, just the sound of her own heartbeat in her ears.”
“In general, silence often reflects ambiguity on the part of the listener as the observer wishes to understand the other's experience.”
“Of silence, I can say only what I heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leaveand so speech isnt itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.”
“People reveal as much by their silence as they do by what they say.”
“When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house ...”
“The silence was enchanting. Infinite space seemed to enter it, and my spirit, alone with the stars, seemed capable of any adventure.”
“The true hero trains himself in silence.”
“The constant talker will never, or a least rarely, grasp truth. Of course even he must experience some truths, otherwise he could not exist. He does notice certain facts, observe certain relations,...”
“the silence people, hear everything.”
