"Silent person" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... suicidal attempts are made, and all the desires that tend to preserve the individual disappear, including appetite for food and drink, the power to sleep. It is the most startling of transitions; one can hardly realize that the dejected, silent person, sitting in a corner, hiding his face and hardly breathing, is the same individual who lately tore around the wards, happy, dancing, singing and boasting of his greatness of power. Indeed, is he the same individual? No wonder the ancients regarded ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson
... sympathy by the loneliness of this silent person, Uncle John left his chair and stood beside him ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John • Edith Van Dyne
... latest arrived thing, she had a glad welcome. Like Peter, she loved all little funny weak things; and Thomas seemed certainly that, as he lay and blinked at the blurred gas and curled his fingers round one of Peter's. A happy, silent person, with doubts, one fancied, as to the object of the universe, but no doubts that there were to be found in ...
— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay |
