“I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside.” FeelingsSoundSilenceMissingAthleteCrowdsConclusion Author:William Shatner
“Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.” LyingLosesSilenceMissingEasierSafetySecureRectify Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib
“For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one of the most important tools missing is the ability to create silences, as you can in poetry by how you fashion the lines and breaks within the lines and stanzas.” ImportantLinesAbilitySilenceBreakFashionMissingToolsProse Author:Pattiann Rogers
“You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.” KindDifferentSilenceMissingSolitudeServingStillnessDifferent KindsComes And GoesClosenessCongregationPresent Life Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."” PeopleThinkingKindMeanDifferentEnoughSilenceGrowing UpMissingIgnoranceShameGuiltSilentSexualityAll KindsStereotypeSecrecy Author:Esther Perel
“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.” HumansFeelingsLiteratureLanguageSilenceHistoryMissingExpressionContraryNoiseMeaninglessDeprivationRecourseSensory Deprivation Book:Alternating Current Source: Alternating Current
“What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.” HumansBodyFormSilenceForeverMissingMadnessPatientLipsBreatheMysteriousPerpetualHuman FormMysterious Things Book:The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated) Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)