Silence Quotes
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I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out with me sitting at the table in silence, you know, eating a dish of rice... I don't get too many takers.
Chrissie Hynde
Pretenders
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
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Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Saadi
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No one expected the thunder
That came to silence
Such beautiful lightning.
Fábio Moon
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I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.
Blaise Pascal
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Mo: I... y'know, um... I'm really attracted to you! thought bubble: Omigod! Who said that?!Caption: A horrifying silence ensues. Is it an hour, or merely several seconds?Harriet: I've had a crush on you for months.Mo: Thank goddess! I was about to commit hara-kiri with my teaspoon!
Alison Bechdel
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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?
John Milton
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Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie."
Abraham Michael Rosenthal
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By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
Ted Dekker
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Living in a house where domestic violence goes on every day never feels like home. You don't have to suffer in silence. I'm giving my full support to this website as it will give proper and practical advice about what to do if you feel afraid. Remember, you're not alone.
Beverley Knight
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As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,
Float in the garden when no wind blows,
Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;
So the old tunes float in my mind,
And go from me leaving no trace behind,
Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.
Sara Teasdale
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You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
Norton Juster
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Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.
R. D. Laing
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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.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Octavio Paz
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I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.
J. R. R. Tolkien
