S Quotes
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“Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.”
Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.”
“Silence gives you freedom to talk with yourself fearlessly”
Source: Thoughtsshare for Everyday Life: Insights into Everyday life
“Silence gives you freedom to talk yourself fearlessly”
“Silence gradually spread its great, fragile butterfly wings across the ward. The sun had disappeared, replaced by grey and rain. This particular month of July was reading the script for March.”
Source: How I Became Stupid
“Silence guards the treasures of your soul. Let your life be a book with some pages that need to be read.”
“Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.”
Source: Sanford Meisner on Acting
“Silence has a noise all its own.”
“Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.”
Source: Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness
“Silence has all the powerful answers you are looking for. Give it a chance to flow through you.”
“Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.”
Source: Boy21
“Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.”
“Silence has been widely recognized by poets, philosophers, sages, and mystics as the source of all that is, the starting point of the infinite and unknown that collapses into awareness until each of us can so readily say, 'I am.”
Source: The Self is a Belief: The idea that causes suffering
“Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.”
Source: Outside In
“Silence has its own way of speaking which is detected by the patient people.”
Source: The Inspirer, Book of Quotes
“Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
“Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative silence blurs and confuses our identity, and we lapse into daydreams or diffuse anxieties. Positive silence pulls us together and makes us realize who we are, who we might be, and the distance between these two.”
Source: Love and Living
“Silence has never brought us anything of worth.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.”
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy
“Silence hasn't forgiven us for giving it a name”
“Silence heals.”
“Silence heals nothing, fixes nothing, and unlocks nothing. Just because you don’t say something doesn’t make it any less true.”
Source: Crucible of Fate
“Silence held the bubble of the world in its grip.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Silence held us in the safety of life being paused.”
“Silence helps to curb unwanted desires”
“Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.”
Source: Strindberg Plays: 1: The Father; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata
“Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.”
Source: Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]
“Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“Silence hung around the corners, draped like spider webs across all surfaces and hanging like smog in the air.”
“Silence hung in the mountains—
A waft carried chants from a monastery,
a flock of birds joined.”
“Silence, I found, and still find now, is the hardest thing on sadness. In silence sadness blossoms, where in talk it closes in upon itself as the flower closes at dusk.”
Source: A Patchwork Of Moonlight And Shadow
“Silence, if treated with caution and love, can be like our alabaster flask; as it waits for the right time, for the right reason, and for the right audience to manifest its healing properties.”
“Silence in front of savagery is savagery itself.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.”
“Silence, in some cases,” the old man said, “is the same as acquiescence. To do nothing is to condone.”
“To condone, yet live...”
“Yes, but the person who has condoned something unjust cannot then complain that the world is unjust. They make it so.”
Source: A Patchwork Of Moonlight And Shadow
“Silence!
In the era of trembling world it is just a pause in mind which can help to understand calmness of innervoice”
“Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.”
“Silence in the face of evil is evil itself: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
“Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.”
“Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor.”
“Silence in the face of injustice, is injustice in action.”
“Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality. It quietly aligns with power rather than principle. Moral courage often begins with the refusal to look away.”
“Silence in the midst of chaos is an art that no man can understand!”
“Silence in times of suffering is the best.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation
“Silence in woman is like speech in man.”
Source: Epicoene or The Silent Woman
“Silence introduced in a society that worships noise is like the Moon exposing the night. Behind darkness is our fear. Within silence our voice dwells. What is required from both is that we be still. We focus. We listen. We see and we hear. The unexpected emerges.”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought.”
“Silence is a beautiful healing therapy – allowing your soul to be at peace with your thoughts.”
Source: Why the Silhouette?
“Silence is a cage. These words are my keys.”