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• I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Love, Hurt, Light

  E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Grief, Silence, Secret

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.63

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• Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

  John Dryden

  Silence, Secret, Guilt

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.222

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• Silence is a great peacemaker.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Silence, Peacemaker

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2429, Delphi Classics

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• Silence is like a flame, you see?

  Marcel Marceau

  Flames, Silence

  Interview with Charlie Rose, September 27, 2000.

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• Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

  Benito Mussolini

  Ignorance, Giving, Advice

  "The Book of Italian Wisdom" by Antonio Santi, Citadel Press, (p. 87), 2003.

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• Silence is often the best thing to say.

  Frank Herbert

  Silence, Best Things

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.105, Penguin

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• All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

  Ray Bradbury

  Silence, Dawn, Emptiness

  Ray Bradbury (1973). “When elephants last in the dooryard bloomed: celebrations for almost any day in the year”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Le silence est la plus grande perse  cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.

  Blaise Pascal

  Silence, Saint, Silent

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• Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silence, Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.274

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• Because sometimes when someone is telling you something really important, it’s best to just let there be silence, to really think about what they’re saying. A lot of times people think they have to say something all insightful or wise or something to try and make the person feel better. But really, sometimes silence is best.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Wise, Feel Better, Thinking

  Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “The Thing About the Truth”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Laughter, Silence, Purpose

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• What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

  Frederick Buechner

  Prayer, Heart, Dark

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 12, 2017

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• Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a
  destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere
  arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

  Kenneth Turan

  Regret, Silence, Sound

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• Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.

  Marianne Williamson

  Silence, Soul, Sabbath

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 20, 2013

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• Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

  Fred Rogers

  Powerful, Silence, Important

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• Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Silence, Achievement

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, Scribner

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• In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.

  Gangaji

  Silence, Usual, Inward

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• Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Real, Silence, Speech

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

  Rumi

  Sea, Rivers, Silence

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• You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Silence, Political, Statements

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• Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

  Richard Rohr

  Space, Silence, Pushing

  "Contemplation in Action". Book by Richard Rohr, 2006.

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• The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence
  beyond the reach of government.

  William O. Douglas

  Government, Silence, Constitution

  "Ullmann v. United States, 350 U.S. 422". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 26, 1956.

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• The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

  Joseph Conrad

  Artist, Voice, Silence

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Notes on Life and Letters”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

  Thomas Keating

  Silence, Language, Difficult

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