Silence Quotes
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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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What I want most, is to know what You hear in the silence between us.
William C. Hannon
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There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite.
Elia Suleiman
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At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in silence for so long, this good woman who refuse to believe she's good, for only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.
Paul Auster
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
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When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
Philip James Bailey
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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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In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.
Mother Teresa
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The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.
Eugene H. Peterson
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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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Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
Euripides
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
George Eliot
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Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.
C. S. Lewis
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Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.
Nelly Mazloum
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As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves but does not speak … I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have free hand.
Mother Teresa
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Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.
Thomas Carlyle
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Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.
H. W. L. Poonja
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Silence is what makes music sexy. I just move blocks of silence around. The notes are an afterthought.
Nicholas Payton
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
Ben Jonson
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It's a rule when you're welcomed in the Marvel family that you have to understand that you're going to be living in a code of silence.
Maurissa Tancharoen
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Experience yourself in silence.
Erich Schiffmann
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You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.
Margaret Mitchell
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One of my biggest fears as a director is that everything is taking too long on camera. The actor saying their lines, the silence between lines, the length of time it takes to walk from A to B. So you try it at different speeds and then see what sticks in the edit room.
Miguel Sapochnik