Silence Quotes
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If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Evening fell, there were lights here and there upon the ships, scattered lights on the shore, faint lights in the sky, and still the silence was unbroken and the peace profound. Those on shore saw phantom ships upon the sea now, and those on board saw phantom white villages gleaming along the shore, and after the habit of human kind each man yearned to be where the other was, and saw in the place where he was not his heart’s desire.
Elizabeth Goudge
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True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.
Catherine Doherty -
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire.
Marcel Proust -
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
Gangaji -
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
Albert Camus -
True silence is the speech of lovers.
Catherine Doherty -
Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.
Billy Joel
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Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.
Edmond Jabes -
Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.
Soren Kierkegaard -
See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.
Sarah Dessen -
..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.
Nuala O'Faolain -
Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
George Eliot
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I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.
Steven Holl -
Silence is the best answer to a fool.
Nnedi Okorafor -
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Francis Beaumont -
There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
Marcel Proust -
The shrinking house was packed in angles of mushy arm meat and abdomens in such ways I couldn’t walk to see who was there or what food I would not eat. The sexdrives of the molding prior bodies of the dead refracted through me in the silence of the act of spreading of our silence outside the house. We clearly knew one day we’d have to all kill one another to become All, and why not begin now?
Blake Butler -
Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.
Gautama Buddha
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Susan Griffin -
What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!
George Sterling -
Each found her greatest safety in silence.
Jane Austen -
The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.
David Duke