Silence Quotes - Page 34

• Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

  Elliott Carter

  Order, Movement, Duos

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• Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

  Jay Griffiths

  Children, Unhappy, Language

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• London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Smell, Light

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• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  Carla Bruni

  Solitude

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• My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

  Bob Dylan

  Faithful, Quality, Violence

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

  John Clare

  Song, Sweet, Nature

  John Clare (1821). “The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems”, p.176

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• Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Risk, Policy, Ifs

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• Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Heart, Apology

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• Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

  David Bowie

  Running, People, Together

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• Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Inspirational, Mother, Taken

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.150, U of Nebraska Press

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• To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

  Nicole Krauss

  Sleep, Moon, Night

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• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  Rachel Kushner

  Way, Persons, Interiors

  "Rachel Kushner: 'I know what it feels like to crash a motorcycle at 140mph'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2013.

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• The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

  Karel Capek

  Sports, Honesty, Gentleman

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• Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

  Michelle Malkin

  Speak, Surrender, Complicity

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• On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Rare Occasion, Gym, Occasions

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• Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Green World

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• I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.

  Mona Simpson

  Morning, Writing, Night

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• The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Waiting

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• People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand?

  Neil Postman

  Book, Writing, People

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.13, Penguin

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• The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.

  Stephen King

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Emptiness, Ifs

  "Director Tom Hooper Exclusive Interview THE KING’S SPEECH". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. November 26, 2010.

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• Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Writing, Needs, Language

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• Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

  Erica Jong

  Blunt, Instruments, Silence Is

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.153, Open Road Media

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• I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.

  Andrew Solomon

  Knowing, Space, Race

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• If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Air, Speaks Out

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.55, Criss Jami

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