Silence Quotes
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Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb scream in silence everyone's sleeping.
Chester Bennington Linkin Park
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... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.
Charles Dickens
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All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.
Gamaliel
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If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
Vincent Van Gogh
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Susan Griffin
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There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.
Errol Flynn
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To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
Elayne Boosler
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.
Catherynne M. Valente
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When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.
Kay Redfield Jamison
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Art destroys silence.
Alicia Ostriker
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There was a moment's silence;and then to her bewilderment, Christopher suddenly went into one of his wild gusts of laughter. "F-f-fifty shillings?" he gasped " Oh Kate! Here I am the king at his death time , and you won't even let me spen fifty shillings!
Elizabeth Marie Pope
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The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.
William O. Douglas
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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
Robert Frost
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The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.
Swami Sivananda
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Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
Alice Fulton
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O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
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I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.
Mona Simpson
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Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.
Isaac of Nineveh
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Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
William Shakespeare
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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
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And to think, there are still places in the world where man has not been, where he has left no footprints, where the mysteries stand secure, untouched by human eyes. I want to go to these places, the quiet, timeless, ageless places, and sit, letting silence and solitude be my teachers.
Evan Tanner
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Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.
Blaise Pascal