Silence Quotes - Page 14

We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.

Jefferson Bethke

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.

I believe in destiny Angel. I believe every choice I've made has brought me closer to you. I looked for you for a very long time. I may have fallen from heaven, but I fell for you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Sure thing, Gumdrop.

Becca Fitzpatrick

May my silences become more accurate.

Theodore Roethke

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

José Rodrigues Miguéis

Try it on.""It's probably a little snug. Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely smiled."It has a slit up the thigh." His smile depened."Zip it up?"Patch's eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. "I'm going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up, if you come home and the dress looks even slightly tampered with, I will track Scott down, and when I find him, it won't be pretty.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're staying here, Angel.""You're taking this one alone?""First, Hank can't see us together. Second, I don't like the idea of dragging you into something that could get messy fast. If you need one more reason, I love you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.

Shannon L. Alder

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

Clarice Lispector

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...

Antoine De Saint Exupery

you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I’m a boy. Like Dorian Gray.”“Dorian who?”I sighed. “Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know.”“Sure thing, Gumdrop.”I grimaced. “I take that back. Let’s stick with Grey.

Becca Fitzpatrick

This isn't your fight, Patch," I said qu

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax." I whirled around to find the real Patch standing in the fitting room behind me. He was wearing jeans and a snug white tee. His arms were folded loosely over his chest, and his black eyes smiled down at me. Heat that wasn't entirely uncomfortable flushed through my body. "I could make all kinds of pervert jokes right now," I quipped.

Becca Fitzpatrick

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

We don't have to go back to my place, Angel. I can take you home, if that's what you want. Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

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

Secret to what?""Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.

Nicholas Sparks

There’s an organic grocery store just off the highway exit. I can’t remember the last time I went shopping for food.” A smile glittered in his eyes. “I might have gone overboard.”I walked into the kitchen, with gleaming stainless-steel appliances, black granite countertops, and walnut cabinetry. Very masculine, very sleek. I went for the fridge first. Water bottles, spinach and arugula, mushrooms, gingerroot, Gorgonzola and feta cheeses, natural peanut butter, and milk on one side. Hot dogs, cold cuts, Coke, chocolate pudding cups, and canned whipped cream on the other. I tried to picture Patch pushing a shopping cart down the aisle, tossing in food as it pleased him. It was all I could do to keep a straight face.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Lawrence Durrell

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Silence is a source of Great Strength.

Lao Tzu

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci

Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

William S Burroughs

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

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

Jalaluddin Rumi

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

Haruki Murakami

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

Laurie Halse Anderson

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

Nicholas Sparks

I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

Nadezhda Mandelstam

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Silence is so freaking loud

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

Michelle Sagara West

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