The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
— Rabindranath Tagore
The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
We are adrift on a sea of moonlight sand, the silence as infinite as the space between the stars.
— Jessica Khoury
Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?
— Kahlil Gibran
As you can see, I speak many languages, including the language of sex. — Kristen Schaal
I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go. — Bryan Procter
I was still rather young, and I hadn't thought it through, how irrational, how unpredictable is the attraction between people, how fatal its current. — Magda Szabo
I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down. — Ondi Timoner
Good walking leaves no track behind it. — Laozi
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude. — Aldous Huxley
What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history — Peter Cunningham
The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck. — Ruta Sepetys
I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea's consoling silence. — Cristina Garcia
Good always wins over evil. — Christy Barritt
Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right. — Josh Brolin
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard ... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. — William Wordsworth
There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence. — John Bercow
Trying to make someone love you is like trying to climb uphill during an avalanche. — Valerie J. Lewis Coleman
The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea. — William Sharp
Any child is stronger than a mother, since the love we have for our children could kill us. — Lidia Yuknavitch
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech. — Freya Stark
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
There is a silence where hath been no sound. There is a silence where no sound may be in the cold grave under the deep deep sea. — Thomas Hood
One of the ways that a writer heals an invisible wound is through book therapy. — Angelica Hopes
Everything is going to change. — James Dashner
Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea. — Terry Pratchett
I didn't like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea. — Albert Camus
To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea. — Saib Tabrizi
