Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?.

The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,And void the places where the minstrels stood,Differs in nought from what hath been before,And is nor ill n….

The pull of Guyland reminds us that women cannot accomplish this transformation alone. In the book's final chapter I argue that just as men need to s….

In a democratic society, the only treason is silence..

I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements, which seeme….

All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand th….

. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors..

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort ….

A story is told as much by silence as by speech..

The most effective comeback to an insult is silence..

The training part," I guessed. "Yup. You're going to be Dimitri's partner." A moment of funny silence fell, probably not noticeable to anyone except ….

The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak..

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth..

Everything in life has its price..

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence..

Whatsoever is, is in God..

When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

Silence never yet betrayed any one!.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal..

Real action is in silent moments..