Top silence Quotes Collection

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Image of Ray Winstone
There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.
- Ray Winstone
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Image of Chaim Potok
I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
- Chaim Potok
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Image of Tariq Ramadan
You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.
- Tariq Ramadan
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Image of August Strindberg
Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.
- August Strindberg
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Image of Glenn Beck
Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.
- Glenn Beck
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Image of Maud Hart Lovelace
The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.
- Maud Hart Lovelace
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Image of Joan Miro
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.
- Joan Miro
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Image of Lyall Watson
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.
- Lyall Watson
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Image of John Wycliffe
There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words.
- John Wycliffe
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Image of Antonio Porchia
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
- Antonio Porchia
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Image of Susanna Clarke
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
- Susanna Clarke
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Image of Thomas Merton
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
- Thomas Merton
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Image of Leon Redbone
The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.
- Leon Redbone
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Image of Samuel Beckett
Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
- Samuel Beckett
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Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Image of Baruch Spinoza
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
- Baruch Spinoza
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Image of Paolo Giordano
In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight by the other's silence.
- Paolo Giordano
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Image of Jhonen Vasquez
I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.
- Jhonen Vasquez
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Image of Tadeusz Borowski
There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.
- Tadeusz Borowski
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Image of John Stuart Mill
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
- John Stuart Mill
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Image of Gary D. Schmidt
Talk is only silence that ain't workin' well.
- Gary D. Schmidt
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Image of Charles F. Haanel
Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.
- Charles F. Haanel
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Image of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Image of John of the Cross
Silence is God's first language.
- John of the Cross
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Image of John of the Cross
It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
- John of the Cross
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Image of Hillary Jordan
What we can't speak, we say in silence.
- Hillary Jordan
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Image of Claudia Gray
I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.
- Claudia Gray
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Image of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Image of Charlotte Bronte
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.
- Charlotte Bronte
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Image of Alison Goodman
Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.
- Alison Goodman
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Image of Diane Setterfield
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
- Diane Setterfield
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Image of Marianne Moore
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.
- Marianne Moore
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Image of St. Catherine of Siena
We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
- St. Catherine of Siena
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Image of Frederick William Robertson
There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
- Frederick William Robertson
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Image of John Travolta
Never say anything unless you have to.
- John Travolta
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Image of Carl Sandburg
Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.
- Carl Sandburg
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Image of Chris Rose
If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.
- Chris Rose
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Image of A.A. Attanasio
Silence is a text easy to misread.
- A.A. Attanasio
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Image of Tea Obreht
No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.
- Tea Obreht
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Image of Thomas  Moore
Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.
- Thomas Moore
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Image of Kate Mosse
History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.
- Kate Mosse
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Image of Matt Smith
By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.
- Matt Smith
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Image of Terence
Their silence is enough praise.
- Terence
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Image of Alfred de Vigny
Only silence is great; all else is weakness.
- Alfred de Vigny
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Image of Theodore Roethke
May my silences become more accurate.
- Theodore Roethke
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Image of Friedrich Schiller
Great souls endure in silence.
- Friedrich Schiller
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Image of Jon Ronson
When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know.
- Jon Ronson
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