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There was something in the color white that resembled silence. Both were emptied of life.

~ Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak Color White Silence

He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Rowell Holding Back Silence

We sat and drank in silence. It was something I appreciated about Jesse. He didn't feel the need to fill every moment with talk or some sort of silly exchange.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Ruta Sepetys Comfortable Silence Silence Communication Silence Speaks

Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.

~ Tina Fey

Tina Fey Crowd Nervous Quiet Silence

In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead.

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Silence

There’s comfort in hearing a voice when the world is silent.

~ Shannon Wiersbitzky

Shannon Wiersbitzky Alone Silence Voice Voices

Once I knew nothing about McKay and now I knew everything about him. This seemed as good as any reason for not walking out the door. There are so many ways to stop the knowing, and I tried them all. I tried silence, I tried heroin, I tried calling it love. And then I stopped trying to call my dumbness any one of ten thousand names.

~ Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Deceiving Hiding Masks Reasons Silence Staying

Most times, the best thing people deserve from us is our silence.speak through silence and it will be more powerful than harsh words

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Inspirational Quotes Love Quotes Motivational Quotes Purpose Of Life Silence Silence Speaks

It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back

~ Stephen Chbosky

Stephen Chbosky Boredom Listening Love Relationships Silence

The more time that passes without an answer and the longer we wander through the wilderness of silence and shadow, the more fearful we become that maybe God isn't all we have believed him to be. It's in those moments that Satan plants in us the temptation to 'throw away this confident trust in the Lord.' The enemy wants us to forget 'the great reward it brings you' (Hebrews 10:35).

~ Kasey Van Norman

Kasey Van Norman Christianity God Silence

They still didn’t talk on the bus, but it had become a less confrontational silence. Almost friendly. (But not quite.)

~ Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Rowell Almost Friendly Silence

Hudson looks at me, waiting for what I was trying to say, but no matter how many times I try, the words won’t come. My chest contracts, and panic knocks my thoughts into disarray faster than a tornado.For years, I was silent by choice. Now, choking and straining and silently screaming, I actually know what it’s like to be silenced.

~ Erica Cameron

Erica Cameron Hudson Vincent Mariella Teagan Silence Sing Sweet Nightingale The Dream War Saga

sometimes, silence can be very loud

~ Lorraine Heath

Lorraine Heath Silence

The acrid odor of overloaded circuitry permeated the air, the horrid smell witness that at least one of his senses was working as sights and sounds became one with the unknown. Eventually he collapsed to the floor, wondering if he'd wake up in mortality. Then the muddled spectra went black, the silence that followed only possible in the deepest sectors of space. Or death.

~ Marcha A. Fox

Marcha A. Fox Death Silence Space Time Travel Unconscious

I don't want to stand in naked silence, pathetically unaware of how to be.

~ Markus Zusak

Markus Zusak Getting The Girl Life Silence

You don't talk much, do you, angel-face? I like that in a woman.

~ Susan Andersen

Susan Andersen Angel Angel Face Insult Silence Talk Talking Woman Women

Wheels turning, the motorcycle’s roar grows steady, which, too, is a form of silence.

~ Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny Silence

Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in the fantasy.

~ Julie Harvey Delcourt

Julie Harvey Delcourt Fantasy Love Romance Silence

The very first part in healing is shattering the silence

~ Erin Merryn

Erin Merryn Abuse Survivor Child Abuse Child Sexual Abuse Erin Merryn Healing Sexual Abuse Silence Trigger Warning

Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard.

~ M.b. Dallocchio

M.b. Dallocchio Controversy Crisis Isolation Mental Health Silence Stigma Taboo

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

~ Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket Companionship Friendship Reading Silence

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

~ David Levithan

David Levithan Fear Peace Peaceful Silence

The silence, she thought, was remarkable: a perfect, shimmering thing, and fragile. Like glass, if it shattered, it would never come back together again.

~ Laini Taylor

Laini Taylor Silence

Because it is so hard, some people wait until they are in their thirties, forties, fifties, or even older before breaking their silence.

~ Erin Merryn

Erin Merryn Child Abuse Erin Merryn Living For Today Rape Rape Culture Shatter The Silence Silence Speak Out

Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Patrick Rothfuss Silence

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

~ Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert Japanese Koan Silence Waterfall

Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence, noiselessly they conversed.

~ R.s. Thomas

R.s. Thomas Companionship Love Poetry Silence

M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men.

~ Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust Charlus Silence Smile Smug

The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence.

~ Maria Faustina Kowalska

Maria Faustina Kowalska Holy Spirit Quietness Recollection Silence

Try to relax. Sometimes the best offense is a good defense.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

Becca Fitzpatrick Hush Hush Inspirational Silence

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

~ Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah Quiet Silence Solitude

You would do well to guard your tongue, lest it be stricken from you.

~ Nenia Campbell

Nenia Campbell Caution Danger Silence Talking Warning

Silence promotes the presence of God, prevents many harsh and proud words, and suppresses many dangers in the way of ridiculing or harshly judging our neighbors ... If you are faithful in keeping silence when it is not necessary to speak, God will preserve you from evil when it is right for you to talk.

~ François Fénelon

François Fénelon God Silence

It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..

~ Sanhita Baruah

Sanhita Baruah Chaos Crowd Desert Fork Life Lost Silence Solitude Two Sides

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

~ Albert Camus

Albert Camus Disease Plague Silence Truth

silence was never lost, she just had to stop screaming long enough to hear it:.

~ Kathryn Dyche Dechairo

Kathryn Dyche Dechairo Kathryn Dyche Dechairo Screaming Silence

Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.

~ Doug Cooper

Doug Cooper Identity Imprisonment Outside In Silence Walls

The feeling cannot be described in words, it's mystical; I am changing. Perhaps the soul needed silence so that it can shout to hear the echo from the walls of my heart. It did heard something, Sufism!

~ Dr. S.u.a.h Syed

Dr. S.u.a.h Syed Mystical Silence Soul Sufism

Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath gets slower and deeper as I peruse the shelves. I believe that books contain messages I am meant to receive. I’m not normally superstitious, but I’ve even had books fall from shelves and land at my feet. Books are my missives from the universe.

~ Laurie Horowitz

Laurie Horowitz Books Bookstore Calm Peace Reading Silence

He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes the dullness came to the fore with a strange and insistent ache which he would entertain briefly, but learn to keep at bay. Mostly, however, it was the contentment he entertained; the slow ease and the silence could, once night had fallen, fill him with a happiness that nothing, no society nor the company of any individual, no glamour or glitter, could equal.

~ Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín Silence Solitude
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