Silence Is Quotes - Page 22

• Silence is the garden of thought.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Garden, Silence

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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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• Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind of imprisonment we can inflict on fellow humans, and if you are forced to keep silent about some dark secret, you live in solitary confinement. Without the bridge of communication connecting you to other human beings, you can’t share your burdens, can’t receive comfort, can’t confirm that you still belong. Silence is the abyss that separates you from hope.

  Martha Beck

  Communication, Dark, Bridges

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• There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

  Martha Beck

  Silence, Important, Stills

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• Inside the silence is a melody.

  Joe Walsh

  Silence, Explanation, Melody

  Song: The Radio Song, Album: Got Any Gum?

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• The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.

  David Whyte

  Art, Listening Ear, Silence

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• Silence is so often applauded and those who speak out are often called tasteless.

  Margaret Cho

  Speaks Out, Silence, Speak

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

  Janelle Monae

  Silence, Enemy, Sound

  "Janelle Monae: 'Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon'" by Brittany Vickers, edition.cnn.com. October 22, 2015.

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• Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

  Keith Jarrett

  Silence, Arise

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• In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Silence, World, Violence

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Book, Reading, Silence

  "Talks by Krishnamurti in Europe 1962 (Verbatim Report) London, Saanen". Jiddu Krishnamurti's seventh public talk in London, jkrishnamurti.org. June 19, 1962.

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• Without the silence that follows the chants, you get only half the story. It's like the climax of a good story. The silence is there because it exists in the music. It just needs to be exposed and acknowledged.

  Deva Premal

  Silence, Needs, Stories

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• Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Order, Space, Silence

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.6, New World Library

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• When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Silence, Defense, Opponents

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.227

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• Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Home, Giving, Silence

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• A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

  Chaim Potok

  Two, Silence, Coins

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it, We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth, So scared of what you think of me, I'm scared of even telling you...

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Silence, Violence

  "Song: Words I Never Said (Lasers)". February 8, 2011.

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• Silence is all the genius a fool has.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Silence, Genius, Fool

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Silence, May, Speech

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• Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

  Richard J. Foster

  Self, Ions, Discipline

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• Silence is sorrow's best food.

  James Russell Lowell

  Silence, Sorrow, Best Food

  James Russell Lowell (1898). “Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole”, p.438, Library of Alexandria

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• There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the happy state- or, at least, to the state when pain keeps within bounds.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Pain, Silence, Doubt

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Silence is an ornament for women.

  Sophocles

  Silence, Ornaments

  Sophocles (1963). “Sophocles, Ajax”

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• There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Silence, Ends, Notes

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• Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

  Craig Reucassel

  Silence, Gross, Misinterpretation

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