Silence Quotes
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Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.
John Dryden
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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius
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Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world
Jack Kerouac
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If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
Alice Cooper
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The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.
Idries Shah
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Silence is complicity. I believe that.
Lynn Nottage
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett
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No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
Ansel Adams
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All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.
Ray Bradbury
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For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.
David Wong
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I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.
Frederick the Great
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The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
Charlotte Lennox
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The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
Laura Linney
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After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.
Albert Camus
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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
Ira Glass
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot
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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
Zygmunt Bauman
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I need complete silence when I write.
Chris Bohjalian
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
Isaac Newton
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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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The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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In the silence
R. S. Thomas
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God makes sech nights, all white an' still,Fur'z you can look or listen,Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill,All silence an' all glisten.
James Russell Lowell