Silence Quotes
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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
Seneca the Younger -
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
Cato the Younger
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To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.
Sue Grafton -
Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.
Ray Bradbury -
Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.
Rowan Williams -
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.
Paul Robeson -
Silence is the most powerful state.
Harry Dean Stanton -
On my own, I couldn't silence my fear, but with God's presence I could push past it.
Christine Caine
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..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.
Elizabeth Scott -
Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.
Mother Teresa -
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.
Ray Bradbury -
We need silence to be able to touch silence .
Mother Teresa -
Out there on the plain there is silence, and where there is silence I have discovered there.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.
Mother Teresa