“In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.” SleepSilenceWonderMoonApplesCorridorsOrchard Author:John Drinkwater
“Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.” BelieveHumansEyeSchoolI BelieveChurchSilenceWonderTeacherSeeingStandingHills Author:Alfred Stieglitz
“A great silence has descended on me for the last six months. I am as silent as an Arab in the desert, as dry, thirsty, and full of wonder and rumours which do not materialize into camels or travellers at all, but just vanish into the silent spaces from where they came. I expect this is a good thing though it is extremely irritating - the brink of a voice and never a voice.” LastsVoiceSpaceSilenceWonderMonthsSixGood ThingsSilentDesertDrySix MonthsTravellerThirstyIrritatingCamelsRumours Author:May Sarton
“Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.” PeopleIfsSilenceQualityWonderDoubtStupidMouthsSilentOpeningEnigmaticKeeping Silent Book:The Spiral Path Source: The Spiral Path
“Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.” SecretSilenceWonderTruth IsDeedsConfessionSilence IsUndoneUnspokenSecret Love Author:Ahmad Shamloo
“Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.” ThinkingKindGuySimpleSilenceWonderFlowerOne DayAppreciateWindowTake TimeSkyscraper Author:Douchan Gersi
“I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.” IdeasLightCitiesSilenceWonderDarknessHigherConspiracyCity Lights Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction. Other times, silence allows me to hear what's really going on in my head. Part of the reason we're on our phones or watching television or reading magazines is to give our heads something else to listen to other than our own thoughts.” WorldWantGivingReasonReadingSilenceWonderTelevisionPhonesNoiseMagazinesDistractionWatching TelevisionReading Magazines Author:Eric Lange
“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.” WayFeelsI CanFeelingsBodySpaceSilenceWonderMovementBreathsBonesGrantedLandscapeBreathingMusclesUrbanAstronautUrban Landscape Author:DJ Spooky
“Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.” WorldWantSilenceWonderNoiseDistraction Author:Eric Lange