Pastoral Resources

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

I love silence.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!