Quotes of: Silence Keyword

Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours.

The Book of Tea

To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a ...

Teju Cole

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Octavia Butler

I totally allow myself to feel every emotion, whatever it is and I observe it from my inner space of love and silence.

365 Mantras for today

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.

Acceptance

The zoo grounds reeked of desolation, but the silence had an undercurrent, a silvery vibe, like the hush of a concert hall just before the first note.

The Apocalypse Gene

Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.

Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining.

The Hours

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

Half of a Yellow Sun

I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Through our consciousness, we can enter the stillness of silence and become blessed with the universal presence of peace.

I Am Here: Opening the Windows of Life and Beauty

I’m a virgin, okay?” There was a moment of silence while I assume he was struggling to understand the connection. Then he spoke. “I’m not prejudiced against anyone.

The Innocent: A Myth

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

South of Broad

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism, he was still unable to decide.

The Monk

Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

The tatters of old stories are tangled, weathered, muted by long-held silences that succeeded loud feuds, and sometimes no doubt re-dyed a more flattering color.

My Beloved World

My voice smells like a shout. Especially when I eat silence.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

I shot a deaf man. And just to be sure, I used a silencer.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

He mistook my frustration for anger towards him, which seemed to be typical for us lately. The longer the distance between a correct diagnosis, the greater the silence we shared.

Not My Buddy