Silence Is Quotes - Page 8

• Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Horse, Two, Phones

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.47, Knopf

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• Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

  Buster Keaton

  Silence, Monkeys, Chatter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me

  Leonard Cohen

  Hands, Silence, Knows

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• Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

  Mitch Albom

  Broken, Silence, Knows

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• My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.

  Henry Rollins

  Night, Hands, Silence

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• See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.

  Sarah Dessen

  Silence, Loud

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.147, Penguin

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• When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Dream, Dark, Silence

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

  Melina Marchetta

  Grief, Silence, Majesty

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• It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Taken, Dark, Self

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• I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Reality, Talking

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• When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

  Yukio Mishima

  Silence, Periods, Certain

  Yukio Mishima (1969). “Thirst for love”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Silence, Joy

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.48

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• The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.

  Alice Hoffman

  Lying, Voice, Silence

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stress, Blood, Silence

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.157, Penguin

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• On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, People, Silence

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

  Muriel Spark

  White, Silence, Black

  Muriel Spark (2015). “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, p.11, Canongate Books

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• Even in the most beautiful music, there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Silence is more important than ever, as life today is full of noise. We speak a lot about environmental pollution but not enough about noise pollution.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Music, Beautiful, Silence

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• The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

  Pete Wentz

  Fighting, Silence, Wish

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

  George Eliot

  Love, Long, Silence

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• When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best.

  Britney Spears

  Love, Silence, Comfortable

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• At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Helping Others

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• I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Beauty, Silence, Delicacy

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.405

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• Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

  David Malouf

  Communication, Silence, Speech

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• Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

  Rumi

  Voice, Roots, Long

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• A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Betrayal

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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