Quotes About Silence And Distance

#1. 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

#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. Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some

Tom Tomorrow

#4. The sigh associated with Hot Bartender Dude would most definitely be felt around the world and in the lady parts.
Probably in some boy parts, too.

J. Lynn

#5. Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

Martin Niemoller

#6. 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

#7. Consider yourself an official member of the misfits and rebels circle.

Jessica Sorensen

#8. As long as it's a world, it has laws. Why, I don't know, it's just the way it is. In Nirvana, there are no laws.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

Rollo May

#10. To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

Mencius

#11. Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours!

Barbara Corcoran

#12. Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up.

Ned Vizzini

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

Adil Adam Memon

#14. 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

#15. Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

Carl Von Clausewitz

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

Isabel Allende

#17. 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

#18. 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

#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. Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

Fred Brooks

#22. 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

#23. Poor people knew how to party. The

Warren Hammond

#24. Make me remember you like you remember me

The Weeknd

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Cassandra Clare

#28. 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

#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. 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

#32. And the Austrian army, awfully arrayed, boldly, by battery, besieged Belgrade.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#40. 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