Silence Quotes
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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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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Emil Cioran
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I think I should have made 'Dead Silence' as an independent movie.
James Wan
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There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how, when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words.
John Wycliffe
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Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
Rumi
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You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
George Sand
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The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.
Marianne Williamson
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In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.
Albert Camus
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True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.
Gangaji
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My first press tour for 'Vikings' was pretty overwhelming. Between all the hotels, TV shows and talking a lot, I would get done and have to sit in silence for a while. It was exhausting, and you really have to focus.
Clive Standen
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A friend of mine was married to an assistant church pastor who regularly beat her up. He was smart ?- he'd do it in a way that the bruises didn't show. For the longest time, she dealt with it. Who would believe the minister was a wife beater?! Meanwhile, my friend ? - An attorney! ? - Suffered in silence.
Carolyn Maloney
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Silence is often advantageous.
Menander
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It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
William James
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Then I felt up silence. Then silence and I went all the way.
Bob Hicok
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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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To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.
Elizabeth Towne
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I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.
Mother Teresa
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The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence
William Arthur Ward
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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
Virginia Woolf
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True silence is the speech of lovers.
Catherine Doherty
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We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
Diane Ackerman
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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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I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.
Banana Yoshimoto
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True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.
Emanuel Geibel