A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

Patrick McGrath
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Silence is the mother of truth. - Benjamin Disraeli

  2. Silence is a powerful tool. - Na

  3. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. - Napoleon Hill

  4. In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75) - Swami Satchidananda

  5. The more silent is my mind, The more it speaks; Wisdom is a light divine, And its shadow a mystique! - Neelam Saxena Chandra

More Quotes By Patrick McGrath
  1. We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.

  2. Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation.

  3. Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and howling for her lost lunatic offer.

  4. Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.

  5. Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.

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