Silence Is Quotes - Page 20

• The silence is death.
  It comes each day with its shock
  to sit on my shoulder, a white bird,
  and peck at the black eyes
  and the vibrating red muscle
  of my mouth.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, White, Bird

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.

  Howard Nemerov

  Science, Silence, Shining

  Howard Nemerov (1978). “Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays”

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• The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

  Adrienne Rich

  Real, Tunnels, Voice

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.78, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to all men, at all times, and in all places. She is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly. Creation has not displaced her, but is her visible framework and foil. All sounds are her servants, and purveyors, proclaiming not only that their mistress is, but is a rare mistress, and earnestly to be sought after.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Men, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau (1977). “The portable Thoreau”, Penguin

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• Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Rivers, Silence

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 18: "The Three Fish", p. 196, 1995.

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• Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Perfect, Silence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.192, Harvard University Press

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• When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to the great white throne. For them Gethsemane is as paradise. God fills it with sacred presences; its solemn silence is broken by the music of tender promises, its awful darkness softened and brightened by the sunlight of Heavenly faces and the music of angel wings.

  Frederic Farrar

  Friday, Children, Lying

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• Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose.

  Ernestine Rose

  Hands, Giving, Silence

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• Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

  Josh Billings

  Silence, Kind, Argument

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• Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Beauty, Moving, Silence

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• Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

  Pat Summitt

  Communication, Silence, Less Is More

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.192, Crown Business

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• The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.

  Michael Card

  Space, Silence, Encounters

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• Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Silence, Helping

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.26, North Atlantic Books

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• There're people all over the world that have access to Suicide Silence because of the internet and everyone that listens to you has a better chance to paying to see you play.

  Mitch Lucker

  Suicide, Play, People

  Source: www.theaureview.com

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• When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Silence, Feelings

  Source: www.skyword.com

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• Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.

  Marlon Riggs

  Silence, Weapons, Shields

  Source: espressostalinist.com

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• Our silence is deafening and deadly.

  James Brown

  Silence, Domestic Violence, Violence

  "See CBS Sports' James Brown's Powerful Speech Against Domestic Violence" by Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 11, 2014.

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• Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

  Glenn Beck

  Silence, Important, Needs

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Jason Wright (2008). “The Christmas Sweater”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence.

  Isak Dinesen

  Voice, Silence, Faithful

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.104, Vintage

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• When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Choices, Silence, Censorship

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Adventure, Blessing, Air

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• The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

  David Levithan

  Silence, Peaceful, Darkness

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• True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

  Catherine Doherty

  Garden, Silence, Soul

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• True silence is the speech of lovers.

  Catherine Doherty

  Silence, Speech, Lovers

  "Poustinia". Ch. 1. Book by Catherine Doherty, 1975.

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• Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Silence, Nightfall, Lost

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