“The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.”
Source: Atlas of the Human Heart
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Entering the Castle : An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (2007), p. 39 (Based on the 'Interior Castle' by Teresa of Ávila)
“Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.”
Source: The Lucky One
Source: The Chronoliths (2001), Chapter 23 (p. 272)
“I don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me... Painting is silence.”
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"The Blank Page"
Last Tales (1957)
Context: Why, you are to become a story teller, and I shall give you the reasons! Hear then: Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence. Whether a small snotty lass understands it or not.
Song Silence is Golden http://www.lyricsdownload.com/tremeloes-silence-is-golden-lyrics.html
“All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.”
Source: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 41.
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
“All silence is.
All emptiness.
And now:
The dawn.”
"Emily Dickinson, where are you? Herman Melville called your name last night in his sleep!" in When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed : Celebrations For Almost Any Day In The Year (1973)