Silence Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Calvin Miller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mother Teresa
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm writing a story in my journal, and I'm searching for a true voice. I make my way through layers of acquired voices, silly voices, sententious voices, voices that are too cool and too overheated. Then they all quiet down, and I reach what I'm searching for: silence.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eva Hoffman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Billy Joel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Neil Genzlinger
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A silence, the brief Sabbath of an hour,
Reigns o'er the fields; the laborer sits within
His dwelling; he has left his steers awhile,
Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog
Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade.
Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws,
No more sits listening by his den, but steals
Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field,
And crops its juicy-blossoms.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Cullen Bryant
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		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
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Caryll Houselander
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michel Foucault
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Living in a house where domestic violence goes on every day never feels like home. You don't have to suffer in silence. I'm giving my full support to this website as it will give proper and practical advice about what to do if you feel afraid. Remember, you're not alone.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Beverley Knight
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		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
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Martin Luther
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sue Miller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make one's voice known as responsibly as one humanly can, and take the consequences.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andrew Linzey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In the silence, hear what can't be heard.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ben Lee
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karlfried Graf Durckheim
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Helen Keller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Muhammad Ali