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“To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.”

Sound Silence Events Sorrow Waste Dread

Author:Sophocles

“Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.”

Certain Grief Secret Silence Bears Sorrow Load Silence Is Tokens

Book:The Ministry of Song

Source: The Ministry of Song

“Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.”

Knows Feels Mean Mother Silence Known Alive Terrible Sorrow Do You Know

Book:The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919

“Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.”

Pain Silence Sorrow Silence Is Thirsty

Author:Hippocrates

“As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths of the hearts of people which the storm of sin and sorrow can never disturb. To reach this silence and to live consciously in it is peace.”

People Heart Sin Silence Sorrow Holy Ocean Silent Depth Storm

Author:James Allen

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”

Knows Years Young Silence Fronts Sorrow Despair Twenties Casts Abyss Superficiality

Book:All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

“In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.”

Source: The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

“…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.”

Silence Sweet Sorrow Affection Solace

Book:Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

“I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.”

Doe Night Silence Sorrow My Friends Remains Silent Echoes One Friend Confidant

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“My mom told me that I should trust the man who could see the sorrow behind my smile, the love behind my anger, and the reasons behind my silence.”

Men Should Reason Behinds Silence Mom Sorrow My Mom My Smile

Book:Lucky Harbor Collection 3: It Had To Be You, Always On My Mind, Once In A Lifetime

Source: Lucky Harbor Collection 3: It Had To Be You, Always On My Mind, Once In A Lifetime

“The truly happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief, and where Christ's comfort was accepted. The very memory of the sorrow is a gentle benediction that broods ever over the household, like the afterglow of sunset, like the silence that comes after prayer.”

Has Beens Home Christ Memories Prayer Grief Silence Sorrow Comfort Blessing Burden Accepted Gentle Household Sweetest Benediction

Author:J.R. Miller

“Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.”