Silence Quotes - Page 21

• So many of you have lost everything. I do not know what to tell you. But surely he knows what to tell you! So many of you have lost members of your family. I can only be silent; I accompany you silently, with my heart...

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Doe, Lost Everything

  Pope Francis' Homily at Mass in Tacloban City, w2.vatican.va. January 17, 2015.

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• Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Voice, Meditation, Solitude

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• Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.

  David Samuels

  Reading, People, Tolerance

  David Samuels (2008). “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”

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• But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open—shut up the mind's eye—all will be music!

  Wyndham Lewis

  Eye, Mind, Essentials

  Wyndham Lewis (1979). “Wyndham Lewis, Collected Poems and Plays”, New York : Persea Books

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• What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dream, Pain, Healing

  "The Powerbook". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2000.

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• In the silence, hear what can't be heard.

  Ben Lee

  Heard

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• He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Bears, Heard, Word Of God

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• There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Self, Civilization

  "In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent" by Toni Morrison, www.thenation.com. March 23, 2013.

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• Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Home, Heart, Reality

  Joseph Conrad, Robert Kimbrough (1963). “Heart of darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, ess ays in criticism”

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• I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Night

  Arthur Rimbaud (2013). “Rimbaud Complete”, p.208, Modern Library

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• I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

  Ezra Pound

  Captured

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• Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman

  Heinrich Heine

  Inspiration, Conversation, Englishmen

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• Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover emptiness and boredom. There was only one way I could avoid a state of despair and a breakdown. To be silent. And to reach behind the silence for clarity or at least try to collect the resources that might still be available to me.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Lying, Play, Voice

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• Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this and possess a great deal of evidence. Nevertheless, they remain silent in order not to alarm people. I am dedicated to forcing the authorities to end their silence.

  Gordon Cooper

  Intelligent, Order, Our World

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

  Adrienne Rich

  World, Violence, Language

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

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• It's never really quiet in the Wu-Tang tour bus unless it's a certain time of day. Sometimes it's quiet, but you're not going to have eight, nine members on a bus in total silence and everyone is up, unless there are some issues going on, unless there's a death or something really serious that just has us all thinking. Other than that, we're gonna be kicking it.

  GZA

  Thinking, Serious, Quiet

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