#silence

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#silence #l-m-montgomery

Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#mirrors #reflections #seconds #shrinking #silence

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#golden #good #silence #think #you

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#beautifully #bit #breath #come #end

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#silence #sleep #wisdom

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#end #many #middle #note #silence

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#better man #butterflies #ever #i #man

Silence is refreshment for the soul. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#silence #soul

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. ↗

— William Drummond

#bridle #cometh #destroy #guard #lest

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do. ↗

— William Drummond

#child #everything #expresses #loudly #love