Silence Quotes
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Deep in the shady sadness of a valeFar sunken from the healthy breath of morn,Far from the fiery noon, and eve’s one star,Sat gray-hair’d Saturn, quiet as a stone,Still as the silence round about his lair;Forest on forest hung about his headLike cloud on cloud.
John Keats
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Grave silence is far more powerful than the same old voices yapping away.
Carolyn Chute
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You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.
Oswald Chambers
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Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers.
James Herbert Keenan
Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
C. S. Lewis
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But when she tried to say something, the words always seemed trite and inadequate. Nothing measured up. When any moment might be their last, there was nothing she could ever imagine saying that had the necessary dignity to fill that instant. Silence was better. Silence had its own dignity.
Alastair Reynolds
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'Boom! That's the house, right there, Robert. That's house I'm doing a B&E (breaking and entering).' He looked to me and he said: shakes head and makes hissing noise through nose. Moment of silence. 'I don't know what that means, but I'm doing it.'
Dane Cook
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The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!
Benedict of Nursia
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When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.
Rachel Simmons
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Somewhere under the hurricane a sea turtle rows through silence.
Alicia Ostriker
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I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
George Catlin
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I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.
Annie Baker