Marya Hornbacher Quotes

Silence is best.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

Only silence perfects silence.

I like silence.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

There is something joyous about not talking.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

No one could be still like Edward.

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride.

n OthI n g can s urPas s the m y SteR y of s tilLnes s

No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.

The world is quiet here.

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

Peace and quiet govern the world.

Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.