Quotes About Distance And Silence

#1. True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

Isabel Allende

#2. There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.

N. Scott Momaday

#3. I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence).
[Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
Favete linguis.]

Horace

#4. When you are seeking love, from the distance, in silence, love is attracting you.

Debasish Mridha

#5. He couldn't stay there surrounded by a passel of slaves whose silence made him imagine an avalanche seen from a great distance. No sound, just the knowledge of a roar he could not hear.

Toni Morrison

#6. Only one person can chose where you want to be and that is you.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Tears upon the dry sponge of heart
do not prove I am Promethean.

Adrian C. Louis

#8. She listened to silence. Except the birds. The waves. A few voices in the distance. She would not turn to him. He had to come to her. He HAD to come to her.

Ella M. Kaye

#9. Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

Luc De Clapiers

#10. Alannah cleared her throat. "Does no one wa-want to have sex with me?" she asked, sounding tired. "I promise I'm good at it." All eyes fell on Damien. He glared at us. "Thanks very much, guys!" I grinned. "We got you.

L.A. Casey

#11. Cultivate the distance. Nurture the silence. Let it grow until your fragile heart is as far and inaccessible as his marbled emotions. Don't talk. Don't move. Sit still. If he shows up, lie. Believe your own excuses.

And if he tries to charm his way back in, punch him in the face.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#12. Belief that we know all & we are always right
Leads to distance & silence
Keep learning & Keep Expressing ...

Adil Adam Memon

#13. I work out of silence, because silence makes up for my actual lack of working space. Silence substitutes for actual space, for psychological distance, for a sense of privacy and intactness. In this sense silence is absolutely necessary.

Radka Donnell

#14. The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.

D.H. Lawrence

#15. Recognition hit Victoria like an unexpected encounter with a bat.

Lynn Raye Harris

#16. He mistook my frustration for anger towards him, which seemed to be typical for us lately. The longer the distance between a correct diagnosis, the greater the silence we shared.

Tracey Berkowitz

#17. Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silent distance. Nevertheless, my pursed lips and offish stance are perceived as cold, managing to offend all.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay, here's where we are in the world. Now we're just going to go inside this person's head, this guy's heart, this woman's ambitions and take it down to very, very small scale."

Don Winslow

#19. There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance to stand away from relationships and daily ritual ... and the gift of energy. Wilderness infuses us with its own special brand of energy.

Linn Thomas

#20. Frustration, too evident in the cement clench of his jaw.
Distance, the ethereal detached from the flesh and bone.
Impatience, in the soft thrum of his heel as we sit in silence.

Ellen Hopkins

#21. I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field of media and the field of culture.

Stefan Heym

#22. We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

Andy Rooney

#23. People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has removed himself to a great distance and encased himself in silence?

Jan Ellison

#24. Welcome the hidden messages in pain.

Deborah Sandella

#25. A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Miguel De Cervantes

#26. They sat in silence on the windowsill, their hands locked across the distance between them.

Cassandra Clare

#27. If you love somebody, tell them. If there is conflict, let it go and fight instead for peace. Break the numb false silence and break the distance too. Laugh and cry and apologize and start again. This life is short and fragile but friendship is among the greatest miracles.

Jamie Tworkowski

#28. I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.

Jemaine Clement

#29. There are few things sadder in this life than watching someone walk away after they've left you. Watching the distance between your bodies expand until there's nothing but empty space and silence.

Laura Zigman

#30. Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

Thomas A Kempis

#31. Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#32. A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

Thomas Moore

#33. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

Pam Brown

#34. 14You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Anonymous

#35. There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance.

Harlan Coben

#36. 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

#37. No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#38. Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

Terry Pratchett

#39. Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.

Pablo Neruda