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“If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Would Be Speak Silence Heard Air Minutes Planets Mountain Breaths Envy Contrary Speaks Out Fresh Air Hermits Platitudes

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.”

Heart May Moments Happens Names Sound Silence Breaths Extraordinary That Moment Dusk Advent Extraordinary Things Matched Extraordinary Moments Midwinter

Author:Frederick Buechner

“We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.”

Humans Moments Bigs Sound Cities Silence Strange Quiet Breaths Fellows Noise Instant Seconds Sunlight Traffic Miraculous Footsteps Big Cities

Author:Dorothy Day

“Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair.”

Stills Stars Silence Sadness Healthy Quiet Stones Breaths Rounds Sat Gray Noon Fiery Shady Saturn

Author:John Keats

“Our breath, like our heartbeat, is the most reliable rhythm in our lives. When we become attuned to this constant rhythm, our breath can gradually teach us to come back to the original silence of the mind.”

Mind Silence Teach Our Lives Breaths Originals Constant Rhythm Heartbeat

Author:Donna Farhi

“Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.”

Needs Feels May Hate Felt Silence Fame Praise Breaths Excellence Recognition Envious Conjunctions

Author:Washington Allston

“Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.”

People World Way Might Force Silence Praying Lovers Speech Waste Breaths Amazed Great Love Unspoken Great Lovers

Author:Mary Webb

“To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.”

Silence Sea Argument Breaths Silence Is Pearls Seekers

Author:Saib Tabrizi

“customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.”

Order Actors Voice Silence Gains Theater Breaths Violent Cheer Silence Is Applause Flattering Exertion Interruptions

Author:Sarah Siddons

“You are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off. There is such silence that when you hold your breath you can hear your own heartbeat. Everything is so fresh that you have the sensation that the painters have merely retreated deeper into the dark and that they are looking at you.”

Years Dark Silence Breaths Deeper Painter Sensations Heartbeat

Author:Werner Herzog

“I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a whisper. The wind vane pointed toward the South Pole. Presently the wind cups ceased their gentle turning as the cold killed the breeze. My frozen breath hung like a cloud overhead. The day was dying, the night was being born-but with great peace. Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it!”

Night Force Peace Process Born Silence Dying Wind Cold Harmony Breaths South Clouds Cups Gentle Cosmos Cheeks Hung Frozen Breeze Harmonious Overhead

Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

“I can only wonder what astronauts must feel like or something like that when you're really in the space of silence and you are feeling and breathing in a way that you're really aware of your muscle and bone and the breath and the body and the movement and all of those things that just you take for granted in the urban landscape.”

Way Feels I Can Feelings Body Space Silence Wonder Movement Breaths Bones Granted Landscape Breathing Muscles Urban Astronaut Urban Landscape

Author:DJ Spooky

“Experiencing the silence of meditation doesn't have to be complicated. You can lie on the floor with arms and legs outspread, paying attention to the sensations in your body. You can observe the outflow and inflow of your breath. You can also go to a park and let the impressions of nature calm your brain.”

Body Lying Attention Brain Silence Meditation Arms Breaths Calm Legs Complicated Your Body Impression Pay Attention Parks Sensations Arms And Legs

Author:Deepak Chopra

“What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”

Made Silence Compassion Darkness Arms Solitude Breaths Lilies

Book:The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton

Source: The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton

“I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.”

Ifs Knows Heart Said Hands Might Happens Romance Chance Space Silence Steps My Heart Late Okay Breaths Outcomes Too Late Closing Space Between

Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.”

Ifs World Heart Water Silence Air Wind Listening Cold My Heart Late Stones Breaths Lays Woods Void Ashes Trembling Bleak Bedrock

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.”

Dream Silence Breaths Calm Triumph Invincible

Author:Paul Valery

“Awareness There is a dark place. A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words. I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die. But I can't. The darkness and silence go on forever. It is not a dream. I don't dream.”

Want I Can Dream Eye Dies Dark Silence Darkness Forever Awareness Cry Goes On Mouths Breaths Silence Is Wanting To Die Dark Places I Want To Die

Book:The Adoration of Jenna Fox: Chapters 1-5

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox: Chapters 1-5

“I want you to know, chickens aren’t sexy. Not to me.” This was met with silence. “Are you there?” She was slurring her words now, which was embarrassing, so she took a deep breath. “Cam? Can you hear me?” “Yes, chickens aren’t sexy. Uh…I don’t think they’re meant to be.”

Thinking Knows Want Silence Mets Breaths Sexy Chickens Meant To Be I Want You Embarrassing Deep Breath

Author:Jill Shalvis

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountaintop,then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shal claim your limbs,then shall you truly dance.”

May Earth Dies Silence Sun Wind Drink Rivers Claims Breaths Cease Naked Breathing Climbs Tides Restless Limbs Death Poems Condolences Poems

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Being a Silent Brother is life, Clary Fray. But if you mean I remember my life before the Brotherhood, I do. Clary took a deep breath. “Were you ever in love? Before the Brotherhood? Was there ever anyone you would have died for?” There was a long silence. Then: Two people, said Brother Zachariah. There are memories that time does not erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend Magnus Bane, if you do not believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.”

Source: A Death in the Family

“Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.”

Silence Movement Breaths Dance Silence Is Repose

Author:Nelly Mazloum

“Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?”

May Hands Found Silence Listening Breaths Treasure Seekers Touch Me Harps Flutes

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces