S Quotes
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“Silence cleared her throat, fearful her voice would come out a croak. “Is she asleep?”
He blinked as if he, too, were waking from a dream, and glanced down at Mary Darling. “Aye, I’m a-thinkin’ she is—she’s stopped fussin’ at me.”
Silence felt a huge smile of relief spread over her face. “She was fussing? Oh, how wonderful!”
He shot her a look, one eyebrow arching. “Ye’ve taught the child to bully me, too, now?”
“Oh, no,” she said hastily, embarrassed. Did he really think she bullied him? What a silly notion!”
Source: Scandalous Desires
“Silence.
“Come on, Sunshine.”
Her head snaps up so suddenly, I take a step back. Wrong thing to say.
“Don’t call me that.” Blazing brown eyes pierce mine, and it’s kind of terrifying.”
Source: Collide
“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.”
“Silence could be a question. Silence could be an answer. Silence could mean distance. Silence could mean nearness. Silence doesn't have its own vocabulary. Its meaning relies on the maturity of the one listening.”
“Silence creates it's own violence.”
“Silence creates men; those who speaks a lot does not inner grow.”
“Silence cut him to the quick as it breathed a tale he didn’t want to hear.”
Source: Broken Rhodes
“Silence, daughter. Stay alive.”
Source: The Bird and the Sword
“Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.”
Source: Ghachar Ghochar
“Silence did not mean safety. It only meant no one was listening.”
“Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere”
“Silence, dimness and candle, as soon as these three magicians come together, they almost absorb the tiredness of your soul!”
“Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.”
Source: Silent to the Bone
“Silence does good to the soul.”
Source: Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux, Volume I: General Correspondence 1877-1890
“Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots.”
Source: No Heaven
“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“SILENCE does not always mean 'NEUTRALITY'! Sometimes, it may mean 'consenting' to a wrong, sometimes it may mean 'condoning' a mistake and sometimes it may mean giving space to the wrong doer....SOMETIMES, we need to get up and FIGHT!”
Source: Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core
“Silence does not ask permission to rule; it simply occupies the throne that the word has left vacant out of fear of the truth."
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"El silencio no pide permiso para gobernar; simplemente ocupa el trono que la palabra ha dejado vacante por miedo a la verdad.”
“Silence does not define science in the issue of ageing and death. The absence of at least a solution sentence is in essence evidence of a serious deficiency.”
“Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.”
“Silence does not improve the world.”
“Silence does not mean remaining silent both in speech and on paper. You can keep your mouth shut while communicating thousands of words to the universe.”
“Silence doesn’t always mean peace. Sometimes, it’s a child learning to bury feelings they don’t yet know how to name.”
“Silence doesn’t feel like space—it feels like distance. Like a door quietly closing.”
Source: Meera
“Silence doesn’t hide the truth, it amplifies the lies.”
Source: Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free
“Silence doesn’t hide things. It sharpens them.”
Source: WOLF SUIT: A Dark Supernatural Noir — Book 1
“Silence doesn’t mean no activity; it means highly synchronized actions, much like the work of a well-tuned motor. More noise and vibration never assure better engine performance; indeed, quite the opposite.”
“Silence doesn't mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them.”
Source: The Crossover
“Silence doesn’t protect me. Silence prevents my recovery. Silence keeps dark secrets hidden. Healing means being a courageous truth seeker. Bringing light to the darkness.”
Source: Soul Cry: Releasing & Healing the Wounds of Trauma
“Silence doesn’t solve the problem, it just hides it.”
“Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m sleeping while awake, standing by the window, leaning against it as against everything. I search in myself for the sensations I feel before these falling threads of darkly luminous water that stand out from the grimy building facades and especially from the open windows. And I don’t know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don’t know what to think or where I am.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
“Silence enfolded them.
Dana would’ve thought sleep would claim her pretty quickly after their fabulous lovemaking. But it didn’t.
Aidan arched a brow.
She grinned. “I don’t know about you, but I’m wide-awake now.”
He laughed. “Me, too.”
Source: Blade of Darkness
“Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.”
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
“Silence ensures that history repeats itself.”
“Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.”
“Silence falls as we get lost in our own regrets.”
Source: You'll Be the Death of Me
“Silence falls for a moment. And then the evening continues, as it must.”
Source: A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss
“Silence fell between the four of them as they looked up at the sky. There was no sign of movement, the stars stared back, unblinking, indifferent, unobscured by flying friends. Where was Ron? Where were Fred and Mr Weasley? Where were Bill, Fleur, Tonks, Mad Eye, Mundungus?”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy
“Silence fell between us. This was a common occurrence whenever we’re alone. When you’re comfortable with someone, you don’t need to always fill the void with noise. I liked it when we would just be.”
Source: Better Off Friends
“Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.”
Source: Nation
“Silence fell with night, but Jacob couldn't entirely silence his racing mind, nor speed it up to the finish line.”
Source: Hopebreaker
“Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.”
Source: Stay Alive All Your Life
“Silence free the mind from its verbal cage.”
“Silence frees us from the need to control others. One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. A frantic stream of words flows from us in an attempt to straighten others out. We want so desperately for them to agree with us, to see things our way. We evaluate people, judge people, condemn people. We devour people with our words. Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on that.
When we become quiet enough to let go of people, we learn compassion for them.”
Source: Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World
“Silence gives answers.”
“Silence gives consent.”
Source: The Good Natured Man: A Comedy
“Silence gives consent.
[Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]”
“Silence gives the proper grace to women”