Silent Quotes
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I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.
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Silent mantra practice helps me respond rather than react.
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I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.
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Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
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She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.
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Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.
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Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
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As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.
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We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even so, a faint glimmer of that warm memory still claimed a part of my heart. And when death claim me, no doubt I would walk along by that faint light in the brief instant before being flung once again into the abyss of nothingness.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.
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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
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What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.
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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.
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Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you.
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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
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God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.
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Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.
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The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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They were more severely infected than the men, because while men were always getting furious, they calmed down in the end; women, who appeared to be silent, acquiescent, when they were angry flew into a rage that had no end.
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Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.
