Silence Quotes
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Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.
Nelly Mazloum -
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.
Emil Cioran
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
Thomas Carlyle -
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.
Eric Lange -
Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it's silence, it's beauty, it's humility. Stay aligned to that.
Stuart Wilde -
He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
Cato the Elder -
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
Thomas Carlyle -
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
George Eliot
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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
Mother Teresa -
It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.
Arthur Helps -
In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
Mother Teresa -
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.
Theodore Roethke -
There were grammatical errors even in his silence.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
There is a place born of silence A place where the whispers of the heart arise. There is a place where voices sing your beauty A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.
Rumi
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Freedom is the silence of the law.
George Will -
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.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -
Silence, beautiful voice.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
Albert Camus -
I reshuffled the cards that by now we knew well enough. I spoke of the before and the after, of the old generation and of ours, of how we were different, of how she and Stefano were different. And this last argument made a breach, seduced her, I returned to it passionately. She listened to me in silence, evidently she wanted to be helped to compose herself, and slowly she did.
Elena Ferrante -
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
Michael Jackson
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette -
The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.” I waited in silence.
Elena Ferrante -
All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.
Haruki Murakami -
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy