Die besten Zitate der Welt!

We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech

William Carlos Williams

Stichwörter: poetry silence language

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Charles de Gaulle

Stichwörter: power silence weapon weapons

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

Marianne Moore

Stichwörter: silence emotion

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Stichwörter: solitude silence seclusion

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

James Joyce

Stichwörter: fear silence secrets tiredness

Silence is a source of Great Strength.

Lao Tzu

Stichwörter: silence

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

John Steinbeck

Stichwörter: silence heaviness-of-time

Your very silence shows you agree.

Euripides

Stichwörter: silence

and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive

Audre Lorde

Stichwörter: fear silence poem survival afraid speaking-of survivors