I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.
I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.
I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.
One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.
The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.
The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.
Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.
There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.
The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.
Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.
If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.
Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.
The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
When they remain silent, they cry out.
Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!
I guess it's hard, being apart all the time. " "It really is. If Lucas were still here, everything would be different. " Vic's smile turned smug. "Yeah, I'd have a roommate who could beat me at chess instead of the other way around. " Ranulf never looked up from the chessboard. "I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory. " "Keep dreaming," Vic called.
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.