“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
— Will Rogers“I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
— Mary Ann Shaffer“The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.”
— Sanober Khan“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.”
— Rumi“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir”
— Khaled Hosseini“Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.”
— Norman Maclean“Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.”
— Amit Ray“Only in the silence of our mind are we One.”
— Vivian Amis“Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.”
— Dejan Stojanovic“Nature's quiet power is a reminder that true strength is often silent.”
— Aloo Denish Obiero“Not words. nor laughter. but rather someonewho will fall in lovewith your silence.”
— Sanober Khan“We sit and talk,quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath the quiet heaven ofyour eyeswhich has no speech”
— William Carlos Williams“Stars open among the lilies.Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?This is the silence of astounded souls.--from Crossing the Water, written 1962”
— Sylvia Plath