Silent Quotes
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The world was so silent. There was a barrier between me and the world, and I thought for a moment that the world had never wanted me and now it was taking the opportunity to get rid of me.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.
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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
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There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.
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To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.
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Right then I witnessed the world they lived in go completely silent. The world was flooding with their tears.
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During war, the laws are silent.
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It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
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How wrong they were. I wasn’t a poor little thing at all. Even as early as this, such is the relief when pressure is removed, even in the very act of waving my last goodbyes, I found it quite difficult to pull a suitably regretful face, and I know I went back into the house, the silent house, the deliciously empty house, with steps so brisk that they nearly ran.
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All the great pleasures of life are silent.
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It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.
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How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.
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To me, the European Union says there is a charter that protects you; you have fundamental rights, and they are staying silent when they are violating my fundamental rights.
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Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.
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I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.
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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
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For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
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While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
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As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
