Silence Quotes
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All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.
e. e. cummings
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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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But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision that I make: to make sure that I spend time just with myself, and really times of silence and mediation to go through that process; and music is a big part of that as well.
Kimbra Lee Johnson
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Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world
Jack Kerouac
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Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.
John Dryden
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Silence is complicity. I believe that.
Lynn Nottage
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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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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 need complete silence when I write.
Chris Bohjalian
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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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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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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett
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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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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
Isaac Newton
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
Ira Glass
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The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
Charlotte Lennox
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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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We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.
Matthew Walker
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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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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 entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
Laura Linney
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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
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I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.
Darren Shan