Shadows In The Silence Quotes

#1. There was a silence. The evening darkened in the room. Noiselessly and with silver feet the shadows crept in from the garden. The colours faded wearily out of things.

Oscar Wilde

#2. When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence.

Mark Strand

#3. He'll banish the shadows. He'll silence the whispers. An the wounds of my soul will heal.

Moira Young

#4. Pure your gentle name, pure your fragile life,
bees, shadows, fire, snow, silence and foam,
combined with steel and wire and
pollen to make up your firm
and delicate being.
Pablo Neruda's epitaph for Tina Modotti

Pablo Neruda

#5. You see how I live: shadows and silence, leaving things as I find them because I have no reason to disturb them. But there are things that I have known, even though I never wished to know them and cannot give them a name.

Thomas Ligotti

#6. There is nothing like the silence and loneliness of night to bring dark shadows over the brightest mind.

Washington Irving

#7. When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

Al Neuharth

#8. The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#9. Embrace the shadows ... Breathe the silence ... Be ordinary, be invisible ... Mark the man ... Know every out ...

Brent Weeks

#10. Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

Madeleine L'Engle

#11. Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

Cat Stevens

#12. Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing hatred White like a frozen, pained cry Red like the night's hungry shadows Like a sigh piercing the moon it shines white and shatters red

Tite Kubo

#13. The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#14. You've done so well, Marcus," I told him. "If you find Azrael, please thank him for me. And give Kate my love.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#15. Long drawn, the cool, green shadows
Steal o'er the lake's warm breast,
And the ancient silence follows
The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers,
And dreams of countless Junes,
Return when the lake-wind murmurs
Through golden August noons.

William Braithwaite

#16. They were shadows in the dark, cocooned in its secrets, bathed in its silence, enspelled by each other.

J.D. Robb

#17. I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books ... True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.

Felix J. Palma

#18. The shadow of my sorrow. Let's see, 'tis very true. My griefs lie all within and these external manners of laments are mere shadows to the unseen grief which swells with silence in the tortured soul.
There lies the substance.

William Shakespeare

#19. My grief lies all within; and these external manner of laments are merely shadows of the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortur'd soul.

William Shakespeare

#20. Modern war is fearing the air, the shadows, fearing the silence. Death will come and I won't even see it.

Pierce Brown

#21. And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#22. They sat in companionable silence for a few moments after that, while the sun settled into its downward arc in the west and long shadows began to creep across the face of the city.

Scott Lynch

#23. It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.

Bailey White

#24. Silence broke out of me
It seemed as if I had lost you
in the days
where no dancing shadows of illustrious walls
Silence broke out of me
It seemed as if I had found you again
found you again in my heart
in the nights
where thousands of suns from the sky

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#25. A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

J.R.R. Tolkien

#26. Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence.
-Engraved on the monument Clay built

Lorraine Heath

#27. Ashes, ashes." Her whispered words of an old rhyme smashed through the silence as thunder, and in unison, the shadow figures answered.
"We all fall down.

A.F. Stewart

#28. There was a long silence. Magnus broke it. "I have to hand it to you," he said. "I never thought Jace and Clary would be topped by anyone else in terms of insane, self-destructive decisions, but you all are giving them a run for their money.

Cassandra Clare

#29. Silence gave the shadows and the darkness power

Madeleine Roux

#30. I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

Novala Takemoto