Silence Quotes
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After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.
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The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness.
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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
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There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction. Other times, silence allows me to hear what's really going on in my head. Part of the reason we're on our phones or watching television or reading magazines is to give our heads something else to listen to other than our own thoughts.
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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
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As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
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Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.
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Your very silence shows you agree.
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The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.
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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
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To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.
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Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.
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You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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My silence was my salvation; the silence of years of trying to say something without much understanding; the silence of desperate action. This would be the first silence that would carry meaning.
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I love meditating and taking some time for myself when I need it. As moms, it's easy to feel guilty about this sort of thing, but it's necessary. If I'm feeling overwhelmed, I'll walk down the beach or just sit in silence and reflect. Even if it's just 10 minutes, every little bit helps.
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He watched her retreat, his eyes lazy, and his body unmoving. A trickle of blood seeped slowly from the corner of his mouth. He let her get nearly out of the room before he spoke, “I may not have the right, Silence, me love,” he drawled so soft she nearly didn’t catch the words. “But I would’ve listened to ye. I would’ve believed ye.
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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.
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There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.
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If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines - the basis of life - developed, you find an eerie and complete silence. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet-impenetrable barrier to Darwinism's universal reach.
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The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
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Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
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The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.
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Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.
