“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it’s something…”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“It all adds up to one thing: peace, silence, solitude. The world and its noise are out of sight and far away. Forest and field, sun and wind and sky, earth and water, all speak the same language.”— Thomas Merton, amazon.com
“It’s become as natural and right to be alone and silent that I don’t know how I can shift over to company.”— Martha Gellhorn, amazon.com
“Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.”— Ezra Taft Benson, lds.org
“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”— Eugene Kennedy, amazon.com
“Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.”— Cornelia Funke, amazon.com
“Practicing silence means making a commitment to take a certain amount of time to simply Be.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”— Martin Luther King Jr., nydailynews.com
“I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire...”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“And then there are the times when the wolves are silent and the moon is howling.”— George Carlin, amazon.com
“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com