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Quotes about The Silence

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510 Written Quotes

Don't fear conflict, fear the silence. Votes: 4

Ross Parsley

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Sometimes the silence can be like thunder. Votes: 4

Bob Dylan

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God speaks in the silence of the heart. Votes: 4

Mother Teresa

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In the silence, hear what can't be heard. Votes: 4

Ben Lee

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Listen to the silence... it has much to say. Votes: 4

Susan Jeffers

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Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room. Votes: 4

Cory Basil

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But the silence spoke volumes. Votes: 3

Haruki Murakami

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Inside the silence is a melody. Votes: 3

Joe Walsh

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Music is the framework around the silence. Votes: 3

Miles Davis

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Music is the silence between the notes. Votes: 3

Claude Debussy

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Freedom is the silence of the law. Votes: 3

George Will

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There's no match for the silence of GOD. Votes: 3

Nicole Krauss

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Speak only if it improves upon the silence. Votes: 3

Mahatma Gandhi

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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. Votes: 3

Jorge Luis Borges

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Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose. Votes: 3

Charles F. Haanel

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It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm. Votes: 3

Nelly Mazloum

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The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish. Votes: 3

Libba Bray

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Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening. Votes: 3

Anna Kavan

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I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words. Votes: 3

Ani DiFranco

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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud. Votes: 3

Gary Oldman

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The silence of prayer is the silence of listening. Votes: 3

Elizabeth O'Connor

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A man is known by the silence he keeps. Votes: 3

Oliver Herford

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My love, I fear the silence of your hands. Votes: 3

Mahmoud Darwish

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Who are you in the silence between your thoughts? Votes: 3

Gil Fronsdal

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Do not speak unless you can improve the silence. Votes: 3

Edmund Muskie

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Go to where the silence is and say something. Votes: 3

Amy Goodman

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Go into seclusion and rest your mind on the silence. Votes: 3

Dharma Mittra

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If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak. Votes: 3

Chris Rose

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Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it. Votes: 3

William Ralph Inge

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Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence Votes: 3

Virginia Woolf

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In a portrait, I'm looking for the silence in somebody. Votes: 3

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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The very first part in healing is shattering the silence, Votes: 3

Erin Merryn

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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight. Votes: 3

Orhan Pamuk

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In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die Votes: 3

Katja Michael

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When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. Votes: 3

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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In the silence of loveyou will find the spark of life Votes: 3

Rumi

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In the silence of LOVE you will find the Spark of LIFE. Votes: 3

Rumi

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The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. Votes: 3

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. Votes: 3

Georg Trakl

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She says his eyes address her like the silence of the snow. Votes: 3

Ronald H Peat

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I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence Votes: 3

Lupe Fiasco

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We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it. Votes: 3

Kim Basinger

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No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart. Votes: 3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Silence is the unbearable repartee. Votes: 1

Alexander Theroux

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Silence is sometimes the severest criticism. Votes: 1

Charles Buxton

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Silence is refreshment for the soul. Votes: 1

Wynonna Judd

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Sometimes silence can seem so loud. Votes: 1

R. Kelly

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True Silence is really endless speech. Votes: 1

Ramana Maharshi

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Listen to the sound of silence. Votes: 1

Paul Simon

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Silence is the wit of fools. Votes: 1

Anatole France

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Silence is the mother of truth. Votes: 1

Benjamin Disraeli

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Silence is the virtue of fools. Votes: 1

Francis Bacon

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Speech is the small change of silence. Votes: 1

George Meredith

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. Votes: 1

Charles de Gaulle

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The most boring thing in the world? Silence. Votes: 1

Justin Timberlake

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Silence is a place of great power and healing. Votes: 1

Rachel Naomi Remen

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Your silence is loudest to those who love you most. Votes: 1

Steve Maraboli

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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. Votes: 1

Marianne Moore

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The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars. Votes: 1

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence. Votes: 1

Thomas Hood

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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out. Votes: 1

Lech Walesa

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The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind. Votes: 1

Jay Griffiths

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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here. Votes: 1

Daniel Barenboim

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It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words. Votes: 1

Eduardo Galeano

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There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle. Votes: 1

Daniel Barenboim

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Art destroys silence. Votes: 0

Alicia Ostriker

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Silence gives consent. Votes: 0

Oliver Goldsmith

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Silence kills scandal. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Silence gives answers. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Silence, beautiful voice. Votes: 0

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Silence is often advantageous. Votes: 0

Menander

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Silence always gives consent ... Votes: 0

Myrtle Reed

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Only silence perfects silence. Votes: 0

A. R. Ammons

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Silence is also conversation. Votes: 0

Ramana Maharshi

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Silence guides the mind... Votes: 0

The Neighbourhood

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Experience yourself in silence. Votes: 0

Erich Schiffmann

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Sun, silence, and happiness. Votes: 0

Nancy Mitford

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Hushed as midnight silence. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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Silence, nothing is better. Votes: 0

Diane von Furstenberg

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Silence 'tis awe decrees. Votes: 0

Robert Browning

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Dare, will, keep silence. Votes: 0

William Bolitho

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Whose silence are you? Votes: 0

Thomas Merton

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Wisdom is in silence. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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The rest, is silence. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Silence is so accurate. Votes: 0

Mark Rothko

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Silence hides nothing. Words conceal. Votes: 0

August Strindberg

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This forest silence improves anyone. Votes: 0

Robert M. Pirsig

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Silence can never be misquoted. Votes: 0

Calvin Coolidge

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Silence is God's first language. Votes: 0

John of the Cross

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Silence is the unbearable repartee. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Solemn silence makes noble worship. Votes: 0

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Listen to sounds beyond silence. Votes: 0

Shirley MacLaine

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Silence makes me feel vulnerable. Votes: 0

Eric Lange

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The landscapist lives in silence. Votes: 0

Henri Rousseau

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Powerlessness and silence go together. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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A nervous silence loosens tongues Votes: 0

Jacqueline Carey

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Silence never makes any blunders. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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Honesty transmits loudly in silence. Votes: 0

Jay Mark Mateo Balmes

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Only cowards hide behind silence. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Silence creates it's own violence. Votes: 0

Jeff Vandermeer

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Silence isn't golden. It's yellow. Votes: 0

Zell Miller

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Her silence translates her silence. Votes: 0

Junaid e Mustafa

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Silence sweeter is than speech. Votes: 0

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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Their silence is enough praise. Votes: 0

Terence

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Poems are difficult to silence. Votes: 0

Stephen Greenblatt

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The silence killed your faith. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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Silence is the best melody. Votes: 0

Azereth Skivel

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Silence is a powerful tool. Votes: 0

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Silence is safer than speech. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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Silence, too, can be torture. Votes: 0

Justina Chen

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Love is a sacred silence. Votes: 0

Orhan Pamuk

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Silence is so freaking loud Votes: 0

Sarah Dessen

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Silence is not lost time. Votes: 0

Gustavo Cerati

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Great souls suffer in silence. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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Silence is sorrow's best food. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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Never be bullied into silence. Votes: 0

Harvey Fierstein

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Silence is a still noise. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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Great souls endure in silence. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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Silence too can be indiscreet. Votes: 0

Natalie Clifford Barney

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I aspire only to silence. Votes: 0

Felix Feneon

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In Silence there is eloquence. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Silence is a great peacemaker. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Silence is sometimes the best answer Votes: 0

Dalai Lama

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Speech is silver, silence is golden. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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Silence is become his mother tongue. Votes: 0

Oliver Goldsmith

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In some causes silence is dangerous. Votes: 0

Ambrose

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Silence is the maturation of wisdom. Votes: 0

Maimonides

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Poetry is an orphan of silence. Votes: 0

Charles Simic

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Our silence is deafening and deadly. Votes: 0

James Brown

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Meditation is the action of silence. Votes: 0

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Secret guilt is by silence revealed. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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The guilty are uncomfortable with silence. Votes: 0

David J. Lieberman. Ph.D.

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Secret guilt by silence is betrayed. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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Never let anyone silence your voice. Votes: 0

Jurnee Smollett

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Calumnies are answered best with silence. Votes: 0

Ben Jonson

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Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage Votes: 0

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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Anything that breaks silence is music...! Votes: 0

Milind K

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Nothing is more useful than silence. Votes: 0

Menander

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Privilege does not operate without silence. Votes: 0

Junot Diaz

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Summer makes a silence after spring. Votes: 0

Vita Sackville-West

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The guilty are uncomfortable with silence. Votes: 0

David J. Lieberman

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Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. Votes: 0

Baltasar Gracian

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Your highest female grace is silence. Votes: 0

Ben Jonson

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Don't misinterpret God's silence as rejection. Votes: 0

T. B. Joshua

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Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. Votes: 0

Sri Chinmoy

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Silence is the tortured man's revenge. Votes: 0

Gregory David Roberts

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Silence is the cornerstone of character. Votes: 0

Charles Alexander Eastman

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The beginning of prayer is silence ... Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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Silence ensures that history repeats itself. Votes: 0

Erin Gruwell

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Silence is better than unmeaning words. Votes: 0

Pythagoras

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Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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Writing is a struggle against silence. Votes: 0

Carlos Fuentes

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The temple of silence and reconciliation. Votes: 0

Thomas B. Macaulay

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Silence is more eloquent than words. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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I learnt silence from the talkative Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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A fence to wisdom is silence. Votes: 0

Rabbi Akiva

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Silence is an ornament for women. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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The language of nature is silence. Votes: 0

Bryant McGill

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Silence does not always mark wisdom. Votes: 0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The purpose of sound is silence. Votes: 0

Jill Purce

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The silence was an intense roar. Votes: 0

Jack Kerouac

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Your silence will not protect you. Votes: 0

Audre Lorde

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Silence is the garment of light. Votes: 0

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Your very silence shows you agree. Votes: 0

Euripides

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Silence can be the worst ridicule. Votes: 0

Helen Nielsen

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Silence was never a wrong answer. Votes: 0

Maggie Stiefvater

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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence. Votes: 0

Jack Kerouac

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To be honest, I hate silence. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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and silence is the golden mountain Votes: 0

Jack Kerouac

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The truth hurts, but silence kills. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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The price of seeing is silence. Votes: 0

Marge Piercy

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Silence is true wisdom's best reply. Votes: 0

Euripides

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Silence does good to the soul. Votes: 0

Therese of Lisieux

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But silence is where victims dwell. Votes: 0

Nelly Sachs

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I have an appetite for silence. Votes: 0

Emily Dickinson

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Silence is the language of inertia. Votes: 0

Margaret Heffernan

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Our silence is our real propaganda. Votes: 0

Osama bin Laden

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To silence gossip, don't repeat it. Votes: 0

John Keats

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Silence is the garden of thought. Votes: 0

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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Silence never yet betrayed any one! Votes: 0

Antoine Rivarol

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There is no diplomacy like silence. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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The fruit of Silence is Prayer. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps. Votes: 0

Dejan Stojanovic

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To silence criticism is to silence freedom. Votes: 0

Sidney Hook

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I don't meditate. Silence is golden though. Votes: 0

Nas

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silence is the most intolerable of answers. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Silence is one great art of conversation. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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Real creativity comes only out of silence. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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Silence is a protective coating over pain. Votes: 0

E. Lockhart

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If you can't manage courtesy, try silence. Votes: 0

Jim Butcher

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Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time. Votes: 0

John Keats

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To many mortals silence great gain brings. Votes: 0

Aeschylus

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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly. Votes: 0

William Penn

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To women silence gives their proper grace. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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most people are perfectly afraid of silence Votes: 0

e. e. cummings

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Silence moves faster when it's going backward. Votes: 0

Jean Cocteau

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Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent. Votes: 0

Thomas Hobbes

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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer. Votes: 0

Therese of Lisieux

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Votes: 0

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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True friendship resists time, distance and silence. Votes: 0

Isabel Allende

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The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable. Votes: 0

Sivananda

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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence. Votes: 0

Laura Linney

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Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison Votes: 0

John Marsden

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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion. Votes: 0

Walter Scott

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. Votes: 0

Mark Helprin

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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too. Votes: 0

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Silence is the essential condition of happiness. Votes: 0

Heinrich Heine

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Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass. Votes: 0

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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...science and violence turned silence to rage. Votes: 0

Emily Saliers

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Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere Votes: 0

Alain Finkielkraut

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The silence was always the greates temptation. Votes: 0

Markus Zusak

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Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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In war personal revenge maintains its silence. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Votes: 0

Elie Wiesel

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Dumbness and silence are two different things. Votes: 0

George Iles

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What barrier is so insurmountable as silence? Votes: 0

Marcel Proust

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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph. Votes: 0

Paul Valery

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Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you. Votes: 0

John Boyle O'Reilly

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External silence helps to achieve inner silence. Votes: 0

Meher Baba

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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Silence is like a flame, you see? Votes: 0

Marcel Marceau

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There has never been such a silence. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Taylor

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Even God used silence as a strategy. Votes: 0

Gregory Maguire

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Let us have the luxury of silence. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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God's one and only voice is silence. Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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You know what, I'll suffer in silence. Votes: 0

Joe Teti

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Real gs move in silence like lasagna. Votes: 0

Lil Wayne

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True silence is the speech of lovers. Votes: 0

Catherine Doherty

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Silence is a text easy to misread. Votes: 0

A.A. Attanasio

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The sound of life has divine silence. Votes: 0

Kedar Joshi

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Speech is great, but silence is greater. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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A riverless silence made the air heavy. Votes: 0

Steven Ramirez

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I like peace and solitude and silence. Votes: 0

Carla Bruni

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Silence gives the proper grace to women Votes: 0

Sophocles

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My only two weapons: time and silence. Votes: 0

Juan Ramon Jimenez

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Silence is a source of great strength. Votes: 0

Lao Tzu

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Silence is more musical than any song. Votes: 0

Christina Rossetti

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Silence is a great source of strength. Votes: 0

John Heider

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Silence is a source of great strenght. Votes: 0

Laozi

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Being a lady does not require silence. Votes: 0

Betty Ford

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The root of prayer is interior silence. Votes: 0

Thomas Keating

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It takes some silence to make sound. Votes: 0

Jason Mraz

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There's a degree of deception in silence. Votes: 0

Don Lemon

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Silence is the only language god speaks. Votes: 0

Charles Simic

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Silence is the eternal duty of man. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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All those layers of silence upon silence. Votes: 0

Donna Tartt

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A good deed hidden in silence dies. Votes: 0

Pindar

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Thought will not work except in silence. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts? Votes: 0

E. L. Konigsburg

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No one nor anything can silence me. Votes: 0

Dmitri Mendeleev

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All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence. Votes: 0

Sylvia Plath

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Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems Votes: 0

Lauren Kate

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Silence is an answer to a wise man. Votes: 0

Plutarch

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Through silence only the good messages go unheard. Votes: 0

Brian Patten

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Silence is argument carried out by other means. Votes: 0

Che Guevara

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Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. Votes: 0

Vittorio Alfieri

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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions. Votes: 0

Alphonse de Lamartine

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A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words. Votes: 0

John Lennon

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent. Votes: 0

Plato

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"¦each found her greatest safety in silence"¦ Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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Silence is all the genius a fool has. Votes: 0

Zora Neale Hurston

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They pondered the importance of coffee in silence. Votes: 0

Henning Mankell

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Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker. Votes: 0

Sathya Sai Baba

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We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence. Votes: 0

Mignon McLaughlin

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Worse even than your maddening song, your silence. Votes: 0

Sylvia Plath

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The deepest feelings always show itself in silence. Votes: 0

Marianne Williamson

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There were grammatical errors even in his silence. Votes: 0

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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Silence has never brought us anything of worth. Votes: 0

Audre Lorde

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God is silent. Everything comes out of silence. Votes: 0

Mother Meera

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Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Silence is the best reply to a fool. Votes: 0

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. Votes: 0

Isaac Newton

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Nothing at times is more expressive than silence. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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The friend of silence comes close to God. Votes: 0

John Climacus

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Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction. Votes: 0

Cynthia McKinney

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Silence Of The Lambs is definitely very frightening. Votes: 0

Jonathan Jackson

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Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence. Votes: 0

Pindar

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Some people suffer in silence louder than others. Votes: 0

Morrie Brickman

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Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence. Votes: 0

Richard Yates

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In an endless silence even screams sound silent. Votes: 0

Dejan Stojanovic

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In music, silence is more important than sound. Votes: 0

Miles Davis

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Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence. Votes: 0

Aleister Crowley

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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If you listen closely, silence can be deafening. Votes: 0

Truth Devour

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The best apology against false accusers is silence. Votes: 0

John Milton

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A moment of silence is not inherently religious. Votes: 0

Sandra Day O'Connor

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Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas. Votes: 0

Mark Hewer

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Silence is the best answer to a fool. Votes: 0

Nnedi Okorafor

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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence. Votes: 0

Yasmin Mogahed

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays. Votes: 0

Confucius

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Male silence is not the same as listening Votes: 0

Gloria Steinem

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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament. Votes: 0

Sophocles

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To choose to write is to reject silence. Votes: 0

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I'm not frightened of a bit of silence. Votes: 0

Catherine Tate

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Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield. Votes: 0

Marlon Riggs

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I have never heard a more eloquent silence. Votes: 0

Laurie Halse Anderson

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Silence is often the best thing to say. Votes: 0

Frank Herbert

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The temple of our purest thoughts is silence. Votes: 0

Sarah Josepha Hale

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I continued to protect him with my silence. Votes: 0

Joyce Maynard

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One word from you shall silence me forever. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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What we can't speak, we say in silence. Votes: 0

Hillary Jordan

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Some say silence is golden, I choose noise! Votes: 0

Blake Lewis

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When you silence your mind, faith walks in. Votes: 0

Aleksandra Ninkovic

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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Silence is a true friend who never betrays. Votes: 0

Confucius

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Modern man has lost the option of silence. Votes: 0

William S. Burroughs

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The loudest noise in the world is silence. Votes: 0

Thelonious Monk

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It is tact that is golden, not silence. Votes: 0

Samuel Butler

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To restore silence is the role of objects. Votes: 0

Samuel Beckett

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Souls of prayer are souls of great silence Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence. Votes: 0

A.P.

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Silence in times of suffering is the best. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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My feelings for you shame me into silence. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins

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Study is the child of silence and mystery. Votes: 0

Henri Murger

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The silence of the envious is too noisy. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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Silence is the space where man wakes up. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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Some things we must pass over in silence. Votes: 0

Greg Iles

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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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All is known in the sacredness of silence. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Silence by any other name is called shame. Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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Not being heard is no reason for silence. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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Silence is the best response to a fool... Votes: 0

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Silence in woman is like speech in man. Votes: 0

Ben Jonson

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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence. Votes: 0

Marianne Moore

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I can hear the roar of women's silence Votes: 0

Thomas Sankara

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There comes a time when silence is betrayal. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. Votes: 0

Edith Wharton

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The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ... Votes: 0

Carol Shields

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Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter. Votes: 0

Buster Keaton

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. Votes: 0

Thomas Hardy

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silence between two words is an endless road. Votes: 0

lity munshi

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The greatest sound in the theater is silence. Votes: 0

Kevin Spacey

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Now all my teachers are dead except silence. Votes: 0

W. S. Merwin

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Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence Votes: 0

Paullina Simons

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The two heart-grey puddles: two mouthsfull of silence. Votes: 0

Paul Celan

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Only silence communicates the truth as it is. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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Talk is only silence that ain't workin' well. Votes: 0

Gary D. Schmidt

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If you like music you like silence actually. Votes: 0

David Hockney

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Silence is one of many forms of prayer. Votes: 0

Y.I. Lee

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I can hear the roar of women's silence. Votes: 0

Thomas Sankara

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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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Go where there is silence and say something. Votes: 0

Amy Goodman

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Only silence is great; all else is weakness. Votes: 0

Alfred de Vigny

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Votes: 0

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman Votes: 0

Heinrich Heine

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I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound Votes: 0

Max Picard

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silence was the first prayer I learned to trust ... Votes: 0

Patricia Hampl

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Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented. Votes: 0

Henry F. Ashurst

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Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted. Votes: 0

Bob Monkhouse

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity. Votes: 0

Meister Eckhart

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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible? Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves, in silence sleep! Votes: 0

John Gay

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Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge? Votes: 0

Sophocles

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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear. Votes: 0

Haruki Murakami

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Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply. Votes: 0

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us. Votes: 0

Thomas Raymond Kelly

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Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate Votes: 0

Leonard Cohen

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Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish. Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us. Votes: 0

David Malouf

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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today. Votes: 0

Tom Ford

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External silence can be the doorway to inner silence. Votes: 0

Ram Dass

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The most profound statements are often said in silence. Votes: 0

Lynn Johnston

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Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground. Votes: 0

Michelle Malkin

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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence? Votes: 0

Charles Dickens

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In a democratic society, the only treason is silence. Votes: 0

Anna Quindlen

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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. Votes: 0

Xenocrates

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The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste. Votes: 0

Emily Dickinson

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The most effective comeback to an insult is silence. Votes: 0

Russell Lynes

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Connection with yourself only comes in moments of silence. Votes: 0

Bryant McGill

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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence. Votes: 0

Keith Richards

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Silence is the potential from which music can arise. Votes: 0

Keith Jarrett

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Thundering in my head; the sound of silence overwhelms. Votes: 0

Roderick L. Evans

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oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence. Votes: 0

Hannah More

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... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying. Votes: 0

Pat Conroy

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... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. Votes: 0

Audre Lorde

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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence. Votes: 0

Ira Glass

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The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe? Votes: 0

Paul Davies

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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute. Votes: 0

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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A story that must be told never forgives silence. Votes: 0

Okey Ndibe

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I am working out the vocabulary of my silence. Votes: 0

Muriel Rukeyser

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Lying is done with words and also with silence. Votes: 0

Adrienne Rich

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Silence is deeply important in all of our lives. Votes: 0

Sally Quinn

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[Osho] silence and love say more than any words. Votes: 0

Milarepa

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Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence. Votes: 0

Daniel Handler

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Work hard in silence, let success be your noise. Votes: 0

Frank Ocean

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Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm. Votes: 0

Aeschylus

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The silence gets us nowhere, nowhere way to fast Votes: 0

Staind

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Lying is done with words, and also with silence. Votes: 0

Adrienne Rich

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silence is not weakness and decency is not pride Votes: 0

Arthur Machen

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Writers speak for those who are kept in silence Votes: 0

Isabel Allende

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What is it about silence that makes people uneasy? Votes: 0

Morrie Schwartz

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The silence of a wise man is always meaningful. Votes: 0

Leo Strauss

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Do you think a woman's silence can be natural? Votes: 0

George Farquhar

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Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon. Votes: 0

Janelle Monae

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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Her silence was the blank space between the words. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. Votes: 0

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Silence is a lie that screams at the light. Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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Do not speak - unless it improves on silence. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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God is to creation as silence is to sound. Votes: 0

Mark R. Woodward

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In silence you shall face self...and have respect. Votes: 0

T.F. Hodge

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From politics it was an easy step to silence. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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We need silence to be able to touch souls. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me. Votes: 0

Ezra Pound

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Let silence take you to the core of life. Votes: 0

Rumi

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The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome. Votes: 0

Carla H. Krueger

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Silence is the best way to confabulate with the unseen. Votes: 0

Michael Bassey Johnson

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When something important is going on, silence is a lie. Votes: 0

A. M. Rosenthal

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The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts. Votes: 0

Alfred Jarry

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Right now, I would like complete silence when I'm talking. Votes: 0

CM Punk

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Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable. Votes: 0

Ron McLarty

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A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two Votes: 0

Chaim Potok

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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot, Votes: 0

John Cage

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Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily Votes: 0

Gwendolyn B. Bennett

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we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler. Votes: 0

Louise Bernikow

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Things that are real are given and received in silence. Votes: 0

Meher Baba

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It is only in alert silence that truth can be. Votes: 0

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. Votes: 0

Mitch Albom

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After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world. Votes: 0

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails. Votes: 0

Ramana Maharshi

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The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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I crave a cone of silence every once in while. Votes: 0

Laura Linney

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Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful. Votes: 0

Colum McCann

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Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Out of purity and silence comes the word of power. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. Votes: 0

William Dean Howells

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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time! Votes: 0

Oswald Chambers

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Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken. Votes: 0

Mitch Albom

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In the end, the only thing between us was silence. Votes: 0

Becca Fitzpatrick

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Silence gives us a new way of looking at something. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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There is a place where words are born of silence. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence. Votes: 0

Robert Fripp

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The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude. Votes: 0

Thomas Merton

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When you can bear your own silence, you are free. Votes: 0

Mooji

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The truth is known in silence. Be still and know. Votes: 0

Leonard Jacobson

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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken. Votes: 0

Jeanette Winterson

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Silence, and non action are the root of all things. Votes: 0

Zhuangzi

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Move thy tongue,For silence is a sign of discontent. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Cary

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I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it. Votes: 0

Valerie Wilson Wesley

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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome. Votes: 0

Adrienne Rich

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Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. Votes: 0

Dionysius I of Syracuse

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Do your part to silence gossip - don't repeat it. Votes: 0

Leslie Nielsen

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And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. Votes: 0

Jonathan Franzen

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. Votes: 0

Robert Fripp

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Religion is something that you need to do in silence. Votes: 0

Sally Quinn

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A period of silence on your part would be appreciated. Votes: 0

Clement Attlee

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Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard? Votes: 0

Richard Jackson

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If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold. Votes: 0

Rod Stryker

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In Dance and Music, Silence swims to reach our soul. Votes: 0

Nelly Mazloum

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At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back. Votes: 0

Veronica Roth

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May your voice be loving enough to silence your own fears. Votes: 0

silent lotus

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To silence the expression of your soul's code is to suffer. Votes: 0

LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier

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So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time? Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights. Votes: 0

Brittany Daniel

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It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence. Votes: 0

Vikas Swarup

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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing. Votes: 0

Samuel Butler

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Apart from myths and lies, what else is there but silence? Votes: 0

Marty Rubin

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The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell. Votes: 0

Joyce Maynard

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One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated. Votes: 0

Gary Cooper

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There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone. Votes: 0

Frederick William Robertson

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Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them! Votes: 0

Anne Michaels

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To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy. Votes: 0

Elayne Boosler

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What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. Votes: 0

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence. Votes: 0

Ken Blanchard

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Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does. Votes: 0

Isak Dinesen

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A story is told as much by silence as by speech. Votes: 0

Susan Griffin

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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. Votes: 0

Muhammad Ali

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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence. Votes: 0

Robert Orben

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Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life. Votes: 0

Plato

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Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. Votes: 0

Pythagoras

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The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith. Votes: 0

Bill Johnson

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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. Votes: 0

Dante Alighieri

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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence. Votes: 0

Alexandre Dumas

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Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. Votes: 0

Pindar

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There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling. Votes: 0

Erich Segal

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We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence. Votes: 0

David James Duncan

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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence. Votes: 0

Bebe Neuwirth

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I would tell you to be quiet, but The Silence prohibits me. Votes: 0

Jarod Kintz

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Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God. Votes: 0

Arvo Part

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There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence Votes: 0

Jacqueline Carey

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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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He could silence me, but Rob had no power over my mind Votes: 0

Alexandra Bracken

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Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Bowen

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Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence. Votes: 0

Louise Bourgeois

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I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

C. S. Lewis

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Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.

Harriet Lerner

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Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

Marlee Matlin

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After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.

Marya Hornbacher

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Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.

Pope Benedict XVI

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But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

Rumi

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Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.

Rumi

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I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

Ani DiFranco

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Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

Carl Jung

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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

Dante Alighieri

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Silence allows me to hear what's really going on in my head.

Eric Lange

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Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts.

Frank Dempster Sherman

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You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.

Gautama Buddha

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Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

Geoffrey Madan

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There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

Helen Keller

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Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

Rumi

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Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

Alice Fulton

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Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.

Alison Goodman

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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

Anthony de Mello

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Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Bob Dylan

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There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.

Cecelia Ahern

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I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.

Claudia Gray

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There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.

Eugene Kennedy

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Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

Fernando Pessoa

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Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience,

Rachel Simmons

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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence

Rumi

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Real dudes move in silence...like a mute drivin a new hybrid.

Ryan Montgomery

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Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

William Sharp

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I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

James Joyce

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Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

Maggie Stiefvater

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In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

Marcel Marceau

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Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

Paulo Coelho

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Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]

Pope Boniface VIII

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Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

Richard Henry Stoddard

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Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

Sri Chinmoy

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Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence

Ted Loder

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And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

Amelia Barr

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Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

Billy Joel

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Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Charlotte Bronte

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Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

Dominique de Menil

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Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

George MacDonald

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What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I expect a black silence that is almost as violent as laughter.

Jean Cocteau

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On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

John Keats

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Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.

Maggie Stiefvater

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Just sitting in silence is one of the best things a man can do.

Nas

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Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.

Paul Gauguin

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It is from that region of silence, that wordless knowing comes.

Roger Housden

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For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.

Alben W. Barkley

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The first sound after a silence should always be your very best.

Arnold Jacobs

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It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

Benjamin Franklin

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Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.

Dominique Bouhours

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There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.

Frank Bettger

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And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

Hanif Kureishi

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Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

Jacqueline Woodson

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The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

Leonardo da Vinci

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When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence.

Luqman

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They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed.

Malala Yousafzai

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When we walk in the sun our shadows are like barges of silence.

Mark Strand

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Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

Marvin Bell

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Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

Michel de Montaigne

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Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

Pat Summitt

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Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

Richard Flecknoe

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A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

Samuel Chadwick

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Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

Swami Vivekananda

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Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.

Swami Vivekananda

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In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

Thomas Merton

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By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

Zeno of Elea

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Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.

Anna Akhmatova

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Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

Budd Schulberg

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The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.

Ernest Hello

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Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

Henri Nouwen

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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is

Maria Isabel Barreno

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There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

Meister Eckhart

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There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable.

Nick Hexum

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The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.

R. S. Thomas

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The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

Simon Van Booy

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Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

Walter Brueggemann

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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

William Wordsworth

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Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

Anne Rice

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Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.

Carmen Naranjo

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Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

Dacia Maraini

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We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

Dag Hammarskjold

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Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Dejan Stojanovic

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The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

Edgar Lee Masters

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Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

Gautama Buddha

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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

Igor Stravinsky

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Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.

Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

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Freediving is about silence...the silence that comes from within..

Jacques Mayol

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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

Joan Baez

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To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

Laurence Overmire

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The only thing I trust is silence. And I trust silence completely.

Leonard Jacobson

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Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

Napoleon Hill

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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

Ramana Maharshi

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Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

Robert Fripp

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A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

Dorothy Richardson

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The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

Gene Cernan

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The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

Jean Baudrillard

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Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Khalil Gibran

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there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

Adyashanti

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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

Cesare Pavese

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Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck

Earl Blumenauer

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If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

John Fowles

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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

John Milton

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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

Khalil Gibran

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Sometimes silence was easiest, when the only word left was good-bye.

Lisa Kleypas

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To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak

Michel Callon

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Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

Natalia Ginzburg

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A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

Robert Breault

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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.

Suzanne Curchod

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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.

Ajahn Brahm

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Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

Anna Quindlen

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The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

C. K. Williams

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Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Charles Bukowski

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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

Elie Wiesel

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It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

Janeane Garofalo

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What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?

Jules Michelet

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Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.

Khaled Hosseini

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... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

Maud Hart Lovelace

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There is always a melancholic silence before entering every New Year!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart.

Sivananda

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The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it

Ted Trueblood

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Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

Tim Ward

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Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

Wassily Kandinsky

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Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

William Butler Yeats

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Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

Henry David Thoreau

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Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.

Mary Faustina Kowalska

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Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought.

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

Norman Maclean

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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

Ramana Maharshi

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In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

Robert Wilson Lynd

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It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

William James

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Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

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I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.

Bayazid Bastami

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When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best.

Britney Spears

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One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

Calvin Miller

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Silence is the medium of source between you and your ego consciousness.

Gopichand Lagadapati

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If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

Ivan Panin

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Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.

Ram Dass

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The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

Remy de Gourmont

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It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.

Sai Baba

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A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

Saint Francis de Sales

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Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

Thomas Keating

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Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

Umberto Eco

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To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

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There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.

Babatunde Adebimpe

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Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.

Eckhart Tolle

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Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

Henry Adams

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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

Hippocrates

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There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

Madison Cawein

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Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

Mother Teresa

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Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.

Patricia A. McKillip

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Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way.

Rumi

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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

A. E. Housman

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True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

Catherine Doherty

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youâd think that silence would be peaceful. but really, itâs painful.

David Levithan

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There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

David Shapiro

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It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

Dorothy Richardson

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You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

George Sand

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What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!

George Sterling

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the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Hannah More

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The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

Henry David Thoreau

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I have often repented of having spoken. I have never repented of silence.

Henry Suso

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When silence reaches an ultimate point, the light penetrates everywhere.

Hsuan Hua

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Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.

Nelly Mazloum

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The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

Nicholas D. Kristof

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Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

Rajneesh

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True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

Zainab Salbi

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The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

Charlotte Lennox

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It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

Dejan Stojanovic

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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

George Bernard Shaw

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Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

Hugh Leonard

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her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Jane Austen

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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Lawrence Durrell

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There's a difference between silence meaning agreement and being silenced.

Mavis Leno

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A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

Saadi

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To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

Sue Grafton

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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Wendell Phillips

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Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

Annie Dillard

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I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.

Carl Nielsen

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Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

Dave Hickey

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I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

Don DeLillo

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There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

George Henry Lewes

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the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence...

Hillary Clinton

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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

John Cage

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Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.

Karen Marie Moning

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That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

M.L. Stedman

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Day after day, we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Mitch Albom

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If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

Paulo Coelho

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We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

Yasmina Khadra

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I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.

Bruno Monguzzi

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True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.

Emanuel Geibel

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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Graham Greene

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There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

Jack McDevitt

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When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

Margaret Landon

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There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.

Michele Norris

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You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station.

Robert Barry

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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

Robert Frost

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My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?

Rumi

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Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.

Sathya Sai Baba

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You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It's there in their dreams.

Shane Koyczan

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Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

Socrates

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The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

Taisen Deshimaru

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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

Adyashanti

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Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

Benjamin Franklin

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When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.

David Steindl-Rast

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Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

Fred Rogers

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Just because others have it worse doesn't mean you have to suffer in silence.

Jonathan Kellerman

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â¦in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

Louisa May Alcott

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It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

Melina Marchetta

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God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

Mother Teresa

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The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

Russell Simmons

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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca the Elder

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Miracles happen in silence... lesser important things create world headlines.

silent lotus

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The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

Sylvia Plath

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I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

Zell Miller

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There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

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I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

Neil Gaiman

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Most people don't know how to appreciate the silence. They can't help talking.

Nicholas Sparks

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Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.

Pascal Mercier

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The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

Paul Robeson

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The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

Peter Sarsgaard

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It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works.

Robert Adams

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You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

Tariq Ramadan

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Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

Theodore Parker

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I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; "the things people don't say.

Virginia Woolf

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And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know.

William Rose Benet

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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.

Anthony de Mello

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Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

Anton Yelchin

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I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

Charlotte Bronte

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Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma.

Chevy Chase

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If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

Confucius

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There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.

Dan Wakefield

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You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.

Eckhart Tolle

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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

Jane Fonda

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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

John Milton

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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

Larry McMurtry

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I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.

Matthew Perry

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God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

Pope Benedict XVI

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Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.

Warren G

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Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

Blaise Pascal

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You know," Kirk said finally, breaking the silence. "I see it. He is pretty hot.

Cassandra Clare

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God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven't a single doubt.

Donald E. Williams, Jr.

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Even five minutes spent in silence will nurture and revive your soul and spirit.

Doreen Virtue

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If you dont have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.

Jeff Rich

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Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Matthew Fox

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In silence more work can be done. The true experience of bliss is without words.

Mother Meera

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Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.

Rajneesh

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Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

Epictetus

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I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.

Frank D. Gilroy

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Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.

Gabrielle Roth

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All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.

Herman Melville

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Silence is so often applauded and those who speak out are often called tasteless.

Margaret Cho

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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

Samuel Johnson

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If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

Thomas Browne

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Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

Wallace Stevens

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When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

Yukio Mishima

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

Barbara de Angelis

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To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

Claudia Black

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More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]

George Herbert

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When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

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It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.

Jeanette Winterson

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Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.

Margaret Cho

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The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.

Michael Card

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Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

Miguel de Unamuno

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Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

Robert Cormier

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For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

William Butler Yeats

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The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

William Wordsworth

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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

Adrienne Rich

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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

Antonio Porchia

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We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us.

David Jeremiah

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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

John Cage

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Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

Jose Saramago

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You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

Josemaria Escriva

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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

Katharine Hepburn

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I cannot tell you anything that you don't already know, but it is known in silence.

Leonard Jacobson

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I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence

Paul Morabito

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Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!

Rumi