silence

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
f09e396	"I must be getting back to my rooms," Silence said and stood. Mick frowned with displeasure. "Why?" "Because of Mary Darling." He shrugged. "One o' the maids is watchin' her." "But if Mary wakes she'll want me." "Why?" he asked again, biting into a sweetmeat. This discussion wasn't to his fancy, but sparring with her was. "Because," she said slowly, looking at him as if he were lack-witted, "she's only a baby and she loves me." "Babies," Mick pronounced, "are a great trouble." She shook her head, not bothering to reply this time, and started marching to the door."	mickey scandalous-desires silence	Elizabeth Hoyt
42813be	"And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly. "Assuredly," she said, "provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything."	joy listen silence	Mary Balogh
eac3156	We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.	silence	George Eliot
a53e29a	There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.	beauty disclusure private privicy silence voice writing	Terry Tempest Williams
6029284	Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.	silence talk	Mitch Albom
e332786	So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.	language silence speech words	Nicole Krauss
0ad6440	Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God .... the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.	silence	Shūsaku Endō
c1359fe	She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands. 'You're being very silent.' 'That's how men cry.	cry john-fowles men silence silent	John Fowles
b5b53b3	For a moment she lay still in the big bed, blinking sleepily, loath to move. And then she realized that the angel's song hadn't stopped on her waking. Silence sat up. The tantalizingly beautiful voice was coming from the half-open door to Mickey O'Connor's room.	scandalous-desires silence	Elizabeth Hoyt
aa18383	She swallowed and looked down at the artichoke petals piled neatly on the side of her plate. Her center certainly felt like it was melting, growing soft and wet just from the rasp of Mr. O'Connor's voice. Why should a man already devilishly handsome also have a voice that could charm birds from the sky? It simply wasn't fair.	scandalous-desires silence	Elizabeth Hoyt
bacc764	"We'll just sit here," said Barney, "and if we think of anything worth while saying we'll say it. Otherwise, not. Don't imagine you're bound to talk to me." "John Foster says," quoted Valancy, "'If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.'"	silence	L.M. Montgomery
a9179d0	In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.	silence	Jhumpa Lahiri
7dd10a1	If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...	perfect quiet shut-up silence woman	Jennifer Crusie
e89bcef	The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.	silence	Thomas Pynchon
9cf739e	Discussing it later, many of us felt we suffered a mental dislocation at that moment, which only grew worse through the course of the remaining deaths. The prevailing symptom of this state was an inability to recall any sound. Truck doors slammed silently; Lux's mouth screamed silently; and the street, the creaking tree limbs, the streetlight clicking different colors, the electric buzz of the pedestrian crossing box - all these usually clamorous voices hushes, or had begun shrieking at a pitch too high for us to hear, though they sent chills up our spines. Sound returned only once Lux had gone. Televisions erupted with canned laughter. Fathers splashed, soaking aching backs.	silence	Jeffrey Eugenides
a8a3c7e	Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow, long march to the grave. Who said that? She couldn't remember now. But it was true. They were born dying. If they were very lucky, the dying was called aging. They reached toward if as if they were satellites in unstable orbits. And then when they got there, they were just dead. One moment in time separated the living from the ghosts.	death guilt loss silence	Michelle Sagara West
ce00136	There are so many different forms of silence: the silence that tyrannical states force on their citizens, stealing their memories, rewriting their histories, and imposing on them a state-sanctioned identity. Or the silence of witnesses who choose to ignore or not speak the truth, and of victims who at times become complicit in the crimes committed against them. Then there are the silences we indulge in about ourselves, our personal mythologies, the stories we impose upon our real lives.	silence tyranny	Azar Nafisi
9be484e	The sea was silent, the sky was silent; I was alone with the night and silence.	night peaceful silence tranquility	H.G. Wells
3920c07	There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.	prayer secrets silence	Terry Tempest Williams
aba995e	The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.	silence soul voice voice-of-the-soul	Cormac McCarthy
bd0c651	And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the roof of his mouth, where even the sons of the house have to go into the cornfield with the rickshaw boy to joke about whores and compare the length of their members and whisper furtively about dreams of being film directors (Hanif's dream, which horrifies his dream-invading mother, who believes the cinema to be an extension of the brothel business), where life has been transmuted into grotesquery by the irruption into it of history, eventually in the murkiness of the underworld he cannot help himself, he finds his eyes straying upwards, up along delicate sandals and baggy pajamas and past loose kurta and above the dupatta, the cloth of modesty, until eyes meet eyes, and then	history mothers movies penises sexuality silence	Salman Rushdie
81013e7	Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.	silence superstition	G.K. Chesterton
2d002f1	Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words.	self-expression silence thoughts words	Elizabeth Gaskell
eedaa47	You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.	friends silence	G.K. Chesterton
7a801e4	That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don't happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered.	silence	Paul Auster
9fee133	El silencio es el lienzo en blanco, el marco, sobre lo que trabajas; y no tratas de ahogarlo.	silence	Keith Richards
e08b914	Silence. A summer-night silence which lay for a thousand miles, which covered the earth like a white and shadowy sea.	sea silence summer	Ray Bradbury
3b59e5f	"Or... maybe I'm not going crazy. "Maybe I'm some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and I'm just breaking down. I'm not sure which way is worse. Dad laughs. "You're not in your right mind, dear," he says. "No, no, no, you're not." And then-- --Silence. Dad fades away. The reverie chair disappears. There's just blackness. I remember then that I am in the reverie of something dead. Whatever that thing was, it was dead. And, just as I'm starting to wonder if, perhaps, I have died, too, I see a light, far away in the corner of the dreamscape. The light isn't soft; it's not glowing. It crackles like silent lightning, burning with electricity, sparks flying out and fizzling in the dark. I don't know why--it makes no sense, the way dreams often don't--but I want to touch the light. So I do."	blackness breaking-down crazy dead dreamscape light mind reverie silence	Beth Revis
a8d6ca2	The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. - Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed	focus self-discipline silence	Barbara W. Tuchman
023474e	Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental opacity of human being, which likes to show the truth by allowing to be seen hiding.	mute nox silence	Anne Carson
9f5f926	There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.	secrets silence	Margaret Atwood
8a0d0c5	Super 8 film is the language of silence.	cape-breton film kodak kodak-moment language nostalgia nova-scotia obscure photography seventies silence super-8	Rebecca McNutt
b4e636c	Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.	silence wisdom words	Jacqueline Winspear
cba03b5	Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.	love silence spyglass theamberspyglass	Philip Pullman
d9736dd	What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. You sift through the rubble, pick up one fragment here, another there, label it and record where you found it, noting the time and date of discovery. It is not just the foundations I am looking for but something at once more and less tangible.	past silence	Azar Nafisi
fc1f077	There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make simple things complicated, did not turn your soul inside out.	children klein-and-wagner life quarrel silence	Hermann Hesse
1c60b32	I am not bothered by the silence. For all the noise I make with my friends, I am still not comfortable talking about my feelings in front of others - especially not classmates.	classmates feelings friends noise others silence talk uncomfortable	Mitch Albom
891c0f2	He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.	silence	Tess Gerritsen
2e23364	When you are sitting in silence, you open the door to a deeper wisdom--the knowing of the ages. When you are walking, with the path to that wisdom already carved anew by your daily practice, you find that an idea, a thought, a notion, comes to you, and you have the solution to a problem that seemed insoluble.	silence walking	Jacqueline Winspear
4d46984	Only their efforts to make him talk failed. he would say one word at a time, if pressed, but seemed happier not to and could not be made to repeat a whole line. Gradually, as his family learnt how to anticipate his few needs and how to respond, they ceased to notice his silence -his manner of communication seemed full and rich enough to them: he no more needed to converse than Aunt Mira's cat did.	silence silence-communication silence-speaks	Anita Desai
56b726c	"Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter."	foot-in-mouth silence	Jim Butcher
cb1896e	"Reading your sonnets?" asked Orphu. Mahnmut closed the book. "How'd you know? Have you taken up telepathy now that you've lost your eyes?" "Not yet," rumbled the Ionian. Orphu's great crab shell was lashed to the deck ten meters from where Mahnmut sat near the bow. "Some of your silences are more literary than others, is all."	silence sonnets	Dan Simmons
518b5d2	Silent people can be misleading, suggesting profundity and thoughtfulness where there may be none.	deception deep-thoughts misappropriation silence wisdom	Rachel Kushner
a503b59	...what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave.	graves silence wales	Sharon Kay Penman
1d54acf	The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.	silence simile train	Carl Hiaasen
b63582a	But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible.	death feelings human human-beings life love meditation power silence thoughts worries years	Jhumpa Lahiri
a1021b0	For a while, we just ate like that, a sick old man, a healthy, younger man, both absorbing the quiet of the room. I would say it was an embarrassed silence, but I seemed to be the only one embarrassed.	healthy ill old quiet silence young	Mitch Albom
3b60d60	Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?	silence	Mitch Albom
dd51f6f	And slowly a discussion begins - as Morrie has wanted all along - about the effect of silence on human relations. Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?	discuss effect embarrass human noise quiet relation silence	Mitch Albom
0222845	<< My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast ! I will sing and make melody ! Awake my soul ! Awake, O harp and lyre ! I will awake the dawn. >> In childhood these words had always risen in his mind when he watched the wind blow over the blue sky and through the trees ; but that was a time when God was not as now an object of fear and perplexity but one who was near to the earth, giving harmony and living joy.	shusaku-endo silence	Shūsaku Endō
b999ca9	Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.	certainty elizabeth-wein ellen-mcewen julie romance silence smoking stars the-pearl-thief	Elizabeth Wein
f4038b0	Well, it was so quiet you could have heard a molecule fart three states away.	fart pin-drop silence tj-klune	T.J. Klune
e438d00	In the morning's early hours, quiet voices were loud.	silence	Markus Zusak
6ab0705	It's far too easy to tote around a pocketbook of virtues when people are around but the truth always claws its way out in silence. This business of quiet and aloneness is working me through and through.	quiet silence truth virtues	Donna VanLiere
5ba3aea	Only their efforts to make him talk failed. He would say one word at a time, if pressed, but seemed happier not to and could not be made to repeat a whole line. Gradually, as his family learnt how to anticipate his few needs and how to respond, they ceased to notice his silence--his manner of communication seemed full and rich enough to them: he no more needed to converse than Aunt Mira's cat did.	silence	Anita Desai

f09e396

"I must be getting back to my rooms," Silence said and stood. Mick frowned with displeasure. "Why?" "Because of Mary Darling." He shrugged. "One o' the maids is watchin' her." "But if Mary wakes she'll want me." "Why?" he asked again, biting into a sweetmeat. This discussion wasn't to his fancy, but sparring with her was. "Because," she said slowly, looking at him as if he were lack-witted, "she's only a baby and she loves me." "Babies," Mick pronounced, "are a great trouble." She shook her head, not bothering to reply this time, and started marching to the door."

mickey scandalous-desires silence

Elizabeth Hoyt

42813be

"And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly. "Assuredly," she said, "provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything."

joy listen silence

Mary Balogh

eac3156

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

silence

George Eliot

a53e29a

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

beauty disclusure private privicy silence voice writing

Terry Tempest Williams

6029284

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.

silence talk

Mitch Albom

e332786

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.

language silence speech words

Nicole Krauss

0ad6440

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God .... the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.

silence

Shūsaku Endō

c1359fe

She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands. 'You're being very silent.' 'That's how men cry.

cry john-fowles men silence silent

John Fowles

b5b53b3

For a moment she lay still in the big bed, blinking sleepily, loath to move. And then she realized that the angel's song hadn't stopped on her waking. Silence sat up. The tantalizingly beautiful voice was coming from the half-open door to Mickey O'Connor's room.

scandalous-desires silence

Elizabeth Hoyt

aa18383

She swallowed and looked down at the artichoke petals piled neatly on the side of her plate. Her center certainly felt like it was melting, growing soft and wet just from the rasp of Mr. O'Connor's voice. Why should a man already devilishly handsome also have a voice that could charm birds from the sky? It simply wasn't fair.

scandalous-desires silence

Elizabeth Hoyt

bacc764

"We'll just sit here," said Barney, "and if we think of anything worth while saying we'll say it. Otherwise, not. Don't imagine you're bound to talk to me." "John Foster says," quoted Valancy, "'If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.'"

silence

L.M. Montgomery

a9179d0

In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.

silence

Jhumpa Lahiri

7dd10a1

If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...

perfect quiet shut-up silence woman

Jennifer Crusie

e89bcef

The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.

silence

Thomas Pynchon

9cf739e

Discussing it later, many of us felt we suffered a mental dislocation at that moment, which only grew worse through the course of the remaining deaths. The prevailing symptom of this state was an inability to recall any sound. Truck doors slammed silently; Lux's mouth screamed silently; and the street, the creaking tree limbs, the streetlight clicking different colors, the electric buzz of the pedestrian crossing box - all these usually clamorous voices hushes, or had begun shrieking at a pitch too high for us to hear, though they sent chills up our spines. Sound returned only once Lux had gone. Televisions erupted with canned laughter. Fathers splashed, soaking aching backs.

silence

Jeffrey Eugenides

a8a3c7e

Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow, long march to the grave. Who said that? She couldn't remember now. But it was true. They were born dying. If they were very lucky, the dying was called aging. They reached toward if as if they were satellites in unstable orbits. And then when they got there, they were just dead. One moment in time separated the living from the ghosts.

death guilt loss silence

Michelle Sagara West

ce00136

There are so many different forms of silence: the silence that tyrannical states force on their citizens, stealing their memories, rewriting their histories, and imposing on them a state-sanctioned identity. Or the silence of witnesses who choose to ignore or not speak the truth, and of victims who at times become complicit in the crimes committed against them. Then there are the silences we indulge in about ourselves, our personal mythologies, the stories we impose upon our real lives.

silence tyranny

Azar Nafisi

9be484e

The sea was silent, the sky was silent; I was alone with the night and silence.

night peaceful silence tranquility

H.G. Wells

3920c07

There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.

prayer secrets silence

Terry Tempest Williams

aba995e

The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.

silence soul voice voice-of-the-soul

Cormac McCarthy

bd0c651

And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the roof of his mouth, where even the sons of the house have to go into the cornfield with the rickshaw boy to joke about whores and compare the length of their members and whisper furtively about dreams of being film directors (Hanif's dream, which horrifies his dream-invading mother, who believes the cinema to be an extension of the brothel business), where life has been transmuted into grotesquery by the irruption into it of history, eventually in the murkiness of the underworld he cannot help himself, he finds his eyes straying upwards, up along delicate sandals and baggy pajamas and past loose kurta and above the dupatta, the cloth of modesty, until eyes meet eyes, and then

history mothers movies penises sexuality silence

Salman Rushdie

81013e7

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.

silence superstition

G.K. Chesterton

2d002f1

Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words.

self-expression silence thoughts words

Elizabeth Gaskell

eedaa47

You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.

friends silence

G.K. Chesterton

7a801e4

That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don't happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered.

silence

Paul Auster

9fee133

El silencio es el lienzo en blanco, el marco, sobre lo que trabajas; y no tratas de ahogarlo.

silence

Keith Richards

e08b914

Silence. A summer-night silence which lay for a thousand miles, which covered the earth like a white and shadowy sea.

sea silence summer

Ray Bradbury

3b59e5f

"Or... maybe I'm not going crazy. "Maybe I'm some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and I'm just breaking down. I'm not sure which way is worse. Dad laughs. "You're not in your right mind, dear," he says. "No, no, no, you're not." And then-- --Silence. Dad fades away. The reverie chair disappears. There's just blackness. I remember then that I am in the reverie of something dead. Whatever that thing was, it was dead. And, just as I'm starting to wonder if, perhaps, I have died, too, I see a light, far away in the corner of the dreamscape. The light isn't soft; it's not glowing. It crackles like silent lightning, burning with electricity, sparks flying out and fizzling in the dark. I don't know why--it makes no sense, the way dreams often don't--but I want to touch the light. So I do."

blackness breaking-down crazy dead dreamscape light mind reverie silence

Beth Revis

a8d6ca2

The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. - Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed

focus self-discipline silence

Barbara W. Tuchman

023474e

Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental opacity of human being, which likes to show the truth by allowing to be seen hiding.

mute nox silence

Anne Carson

9f5f926

There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

secrets silence

Margaret Atwood

8a0d0c5

Super 8 film is the language of silence.

cape-breton film kodak kodak-moment language nostalgia nova-scotia obscure photography seventies silence super-8

Rebecca McNutt

b4e636c

Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.

silence wisdom words

Jacqueline Winspear

cba03b5

Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.

love silence spyglass theamberspyglass

Philip Pullman

d9736dd

What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. You sift through the rubble, pick up one fragment here, another there, label it and record where you found it, noting the time and date of discovery. It is not just the foundations I am looking for but something at once more and less tangible.

past silence

Azar Nafisi

fc1f077

There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make simple things complicated, did not turn your soul inside out.

children klein-and-wagner life quarrel silence

Hermann Hesse

1c60b32

I am not bothered by the silence. For all the noise I make with my friends, I am still not comfortable talking about my feelings in front of others - especially not classmates.

classmates feelings friends noise others silence talk uncomfortable

Mitch Albom

891c0f2

He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.

silence

Tess Gerritsen

2e23364

When you are sitting in silence, you open the door to a deeper wisdom--the knowing of the ages. When you are walking, with the path to that wisdom already carved anew by your daily practice, you find that an idea, a thought, a notion, comes to you, and you have the solution to a problem that seemed insoluble.

silence walking

Jacqueline Winspear

4d46984

Only their efforts to make him talk failed. he would say one word at a time, if pressed, but seemed happier not to and could not be made to repeat a whole line. Gradually, as his family learnt how to anticipate his few needs and how to respond, they ceased to notice his silence -his manner of communication seemed full and rich enough to them: he no more needed to converse than Aunt Mira's cat did.

silence silence-communication silence-speaks

Anita Desai

56b726c

"Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter."

foot-in-mouth silence

Jim Butcher

cb1896e

"Reading your sonnets?" asked Orphu. Mahnmut closed the book. "How'd you know? Have you taken up telepathy now that you've lost your eyes?" "Not yet," rumbled the Ionian. Orphu's great crab shell was lashed to the deck ten meters from where Mahnmut sat near the bow. "Some of your silences are more literary than others, is all."

silence sonnets

Dan Simmons

518b5d2

Silent people can be misleading, suggesting profundity and thoughtfulness where there may be none.

deception deep-thoughts misappropriation silence wisdom

Rachel Kushner

a503b59

...what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave.

graves silence wales

Sharon Kay Penman

1d54acf

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

silence simile train

Carl Hiaasen

b63582a

But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible.

death feelings human human-beings life love meditation power silence thoughts worries years

Jhumpa Lahiri

a1021b0

For a while, we just ate like that, a sick old man, a healthy, younger man, both absorbing the quiet of the room. I would say it was an embarrassed silence, but I seemed to be the only one embarrassed.

healthy ill old quiet silence young

Mitch Albom

3b60d60

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

silence

Mitch Albom

dd51f6f

And slowly a discussion begins - as Morrie has wanted all along - about the effect of silence on human relations. Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

discuss effect embarrass human noise quiet relation silence

Mitch Albom

0222845

<< My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast ! I will sing and make melody ! Awake my soul ! Awake, O harp and lyre ! I will awake the dawn. >> In childhood these words had always risen in his mind when he watched the wind blow over the blue sky and through the trees ; but that was a time when God was not as now an object of fear and perplexity but one who was near to the earth, giving harmony and living joy.

shusaku-endo silence

Shūsaku Endō

b999ca9

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

certainty elizabeth-wein ellen-mcewen julie romance silence smoking stars the-pearl-thief

Elizabeth Wein

f4038b0

Well, it was so quiet you could have heard a molecule fart three states away.

fart pin-drop silence tj-klune

T.J. Klune

e438d00

In the morning's early hours, quiet voices were loud.

silence

Markus Zusak

6ab0705

It's far too easy to tote around a pocketbook of virtues when people are around but the truth always claws its way out in silence. This business of quiet and aloneness is working me through and through.

quiet silence truth virtues

Donna VanLiere

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Only their efforts to make him talk failed. He would say one word at a time, if pressed, but seemed happier not to and could not be made to repeat a whole line. Gradually, as his family learnt how to anticipate his few needs and how to respond, they ceased to notice his silence--his manner of communication seemed full and rich enough to them: he no more needed to converse than Aunt Mira's cat did.

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Anita Desai