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“An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.”

Hands Silence Audience Thousand Sitting Twenties

Book:The Mask of Apollo

Source: The Mask of Apollo

“Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.”

Ifs Way Littles Stills Important Helping Realizing Silence Morning Nice Meditation Minutes Twenties Little Things What's Important

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.”

Firsts Looks Father House Silence Position Ready Mets Pure Twenties Sensitive Dependent Contempt Offense Distrust Unbearable Condemnation Filthy Chaste Debauchery

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence.”

Years Silence One Thing Heard Taught Years Ago Ears Twenties

Author:Mark Nepo

“The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”

Ideas Action Lost Heaven Silence Century Information Ignorance Speech Twenties Endless Experiments Invention Dust Cycles Stillness Ideas And Action

Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

“Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.”

“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

“But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So..." "... you're just going to jump their fence and their pool," I finished for her. Silence. Then Jamie said, "It's twenty-five degrees! In December! Do you know what this means?" "The apocalypse?”

Knows Mean Said Silence Five Saws Degrees Twenties Finished Do You Know Pool Apocalypse Fence December Twenty Five Jamie Blake

Author:Sarah Dessen

“Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?”

Source: The Things They Carried

“I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.”

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Book:Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You

Source: Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You

“In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.”

Mind Has Beens Body Age Lying Silence Generations Quiet Twenties Temples Halls Buried Reconciliation Mind And Body Shattered Contention Enmity Abbey

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay