Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

I aspire only to silence.

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

My hobby is silence.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Images and perceptions which might otherwise be easily dispelled by a glance, a laugh, an exchange of comments, concern him unduly, they sink into mute depths, take on significance, become experiences, adventures, emotions.