Silence Quotes
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Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
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You will wonder how it was possible for me to endure the same kind of “tomorrow the world” talk that had sent me running away from Hainburg. The answer is simply that I had run out of places to run away to. Surrounded by a population that had been completely sold on monstrous ideas, I simply retreated down, down, down, trying to live in imitation of the German writer Erich Kästner, whom I had always admired and who responded to the Nazi years with what was called “internal emigration.” The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness.
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Music is the framework around the silence.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
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We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us.
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All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence.
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
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People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.
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The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.
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I like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.
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By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.
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The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
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I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that... I've always done 'less is more.'
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
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There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
