Silence Quotes
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I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I’m not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for attention is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.
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Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.
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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
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There shall always be much silence in a man's conduct. He shall speak only about a matter concerned with wisdom or matters that are necessary to keep his body alive.
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For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.
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A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, 'In silence.'
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All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.
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The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.
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People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.
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I was neitherLiving nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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Silence brings us new namesnew feelings and new knowledge.Dreams dress us carefullyin the colors of power and faith.
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Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.
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Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
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I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing, and stretching one's arms again transcendental experiences became possible.
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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter earth has stopped the ears.
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Silence gives consent.
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It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
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There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
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Silence is more musical than any song.
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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
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You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
