Quotes of: Silence Keyword

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.

Poems New and Collected

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

Phoning Home: Essays

She listened to silence. Except the birds. The waves. A few voices in the distance. She would not turn to him. He had to come to her. He HAD to come to her.

Pier Lights

The immediate impact of its soaring peaks induced a silence so impregnated with its powerful presence that even Edith was struck dumb.

Picnic at Hanging Rock

It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.

Prince of Thorns

I am the ghost in the empty jar. My silence belongs in the cemetery, just like all my ex girlfriends. Long live love!

This Book is Not FOR SALE

you are as fleetingly beautiful as a mother’s tears and a father’s pranks a brother’s bachelorhood and a best friend’s bad mood a bride’s glittering jitters and a handsome stranger’s smile.

Turquoise Silence

it was the kind of moon that I would want to send back to my ancestors and gift to my descendants so they know that I too, have been bruised...by beauty.

Turquoise Silence

I know a lot about forming personal connections with people. Not from, you know, personal interaction or anything, but from reading about it alone, in silence.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Love has a sound, if you know what to listen for. It sounds like silence, surrounded by blindness. It’s the Helen Keller of emotions, at least for me.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I am filled time and again with a heart-aching wonder when I think of the fire and frost of memories of the everlastingness of love the solace of family and the power of prayer.

Turquoise Silence

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence.

This Book Has No Title

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

The Tiger's Wife

Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

In silence you shall face self...and have respect.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

A book called Life of Silence would get everyone talking. I should write it, using invisible ink. Or to really make it see-through, I should hire a ghostwriter.

Xazaqazax

The moment I saw her I fell in love. It was pitch black and I was wearing a blindfold at the time. Don’t just stand there like Helen Keller. Turn up the silence and say something.

Xazaqazax

The silence became palpable and merciless in its depths. The only sound came from my car’s radio. The Temptations towed me to tears.

Confessions of a Bronx Bookie

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

Reflections

In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In that crushed voice, there is a strain of truth, as a crushed grape yields a drop of wine.

Patricia Storace

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson