S Quotes
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“Silence was never a wrong answer.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“Silence was not built to be filled by noise, for when we do we forfeit what we would have heard had it been left silent.”
“Silence was not the absence of presence—it was its own presence”
Source: The Glass Spare
“Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.”
Source: The Autobiography of God: A Novel
“Silence was probably a single mother’s loudest cry.”
Source: Tadow - Vivid Echoes of Modern India
“Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.”
Source: Manhattan, when I was Young
“Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust.”
Source: Virgin Time
“Silence went to see the ego, but there were nobody home.”
“Silence went to see the ego, but there where nobody home.”
“Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part.”
Source: Mirror
“Silence will help you see rightly between truth and lie and to walk towards to the deeper knowledge.”
“Silence will put us in touch with yearnings, anxieties, pain, despair, envy, competition, and a host of other feelings that need to be put into words if we are to move toward a place of centeredness and come into possession of our lives. The fact is that most of us have an incredible amount of unfaced suffering in our histories that has to be looked at and worked through.”
Source: Search for Silence
“Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.”
Source: Themes and episodes
“Silence will speak
If given an ear;
Stillness is the movement
Of our atmosphere;
Circles have sides
When we draw the line;
Death is sleep
In limited time.”
“Silence. You must learn that art, it is the only way to survive.”
“Silence your battles until victory speaks; judgments are but whispers amidst success.”
“Silence your critics. Ignore your haters. Delete your cynics.”
“Silence your mind and breathe. Take this moment to show gratitude for the abundance of blessings in your life.”
“Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton
“Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.”
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison”
“Silence, and non action are the root of all things.”
“Silence, and then Eve said, "Okay, that was extra creepy, with whipped creepy topping. And this is me, changing my mind.”
Source: Lord of Misrule: The Morganville Vampires
“Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.”
“Silence, beautiful voice.”
Source: Fifty Poems
“Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.”
Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.”
“Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.”
Source: Ivanhoe
“Silence, nothing is better.”
“Silence, that inspired dealer, takes the day's deck, the life, all in a crazy heap, lays it out, and plays its flawless hand of solitaire, every card in place. Scoops them up, and does it all over again.”
Source: Virgin Time
“Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.”
“Silence, too, can be torture.”
“Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.”
“Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.”
“Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.”
Source: The Unnamable
“Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.”
Source: Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand
“Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out and resonate in every word and deed. Yes,become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.”
Source: Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance
“Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.”
“Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.”
“Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.”
“Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.”
“Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?”
“Silenced by the world, I stand alone,
My voice unheard, my thoughts unknown.
The pain inside, it cuts so deep,
A wound that's raw, that cannot sleep.
The silence is the most painful part,
It tears at me, it breaks my heart.
I scream inside, but no one hears,
I'm lost in darkness, consumed by fears.
The world moves on, but I stand still,
A prisoner of my own free will.
I long to speak, to make a sound,
But silence reigns, and I am bound.
The pain is real, it's all I know,
A never-ending, endless woe,
I can't speak, I can't fight.
It's painfully poetic
how this heart has been silenced.”
“Silenced Voices: Angana Chatterji, Kashmir’s Mass Graves, and a Banned Book”
“Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.”
“Silences can be as different as sounds.”
Source: Collected Impressions
“Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly (the making of archives); the moment of fact retrieval (the making of narratives); and the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance).”
Source: Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History
“Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.”
Source: The House In Paris
“silences have deeper meaning. i like silences. i talk to my silences. i inhale the myriad fragrances of silences. these silences know me well. these silences find me when i need them. silences are profound. silences are eloquent. silences are deep. silences are my symphony. there is a charm of these silences. i know these silences well. silences say more than words ever could.”
“Silences like these were never uncomfortable for them, never an awkward space squabbling for meaningless words to fill it. It was acceptance, of a sort, an understanding. These were the people who had lived long and fitfully enough to discover that they were not alone, that there were people out there who would love and fight with them.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us