Silence Quotes
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I once spent an entire night in a hotel in New York looking across the way into someone's apartment where nothing was happening but daily life, a phone call, television watching, staring into the fridge. Seeing how those strangers lived over that small distance and in absolute silence moved me deeply.
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Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
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A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence! Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear! And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude - not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.
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To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people - so ignoring it doesn't make a difference.
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Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.
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Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Silence is a protective coating over pain.
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Silence is also conversation.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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Inside the silence is a melody.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
