#silence

...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands... ↗

— John Geddes

#hands #love #relationships #silence #spirit

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#beat #been #brilliant #browning #far

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#silence #ultimate #weapon

A story is told as much by silence as by speech. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#silence #speech #story #told

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#quiet #silence #tranquility #life

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#manageable #more #persons #silence #simply

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#american #feminine #friends #gained #here

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#man #silence #wonderful

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history. ↗

— Huston Smith

#christian #compassion #death #discipline #earth

The handless clock trying to hold the hour of death, salt in the last mouthful of water. The windows opaque with silence, silence stagnating in the wineglass. ↗

— Warren Heiti

#death