Silence Quotes
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And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasn’t the secret—the secret that wasn’t a secret anyway—that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
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To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
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True silence is the speech of lovers.
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To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.
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We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.
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True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.
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To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
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Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.
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True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.
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[Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity].
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Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.
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A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
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I'm really starting to learn the value of silence and meditation. I keep my sanity in the middle of a hectic day by taking some me time or sometimes watching a guilty pleasure on TV, doing absolutely nothing, or just hanging out with friends and family. They keep me grounded and centered.
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Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.
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My feelings for you shame me into silence.
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You made the chaos in me feel less like a violent whirling and gave me a silence that felt like home.
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One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.
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So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.
