Silence Is Quotes - Page 13

• I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Reality, Talking

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• Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

  Blaise Pascal

  Silence, Saint, Silent

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• At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language.

  Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

  Heart, Emotional, Silence

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• Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Light, Air, Space

  FaceBook post by Thich Nhat Hanh from Jan 27, 2015

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• The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stress, Blood, Silence

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.157, Penguin

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• The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.

  Alice Hoffman

  Lying, Voice, Silence

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Silence, Joy

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.48

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• When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Silence, Anxiety, Feelings

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• But silence is where victims dwell.

  Nelly Sachs

  Silence, Victim

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• When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

  Yukio Mishima

  Silence, Periods, Certain

  Yukio Mishima (1969). “Thirst for love”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving, Silence, Noise

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• Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

  Sakya Pandita

  Change, Happiness, Mean

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• Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Powerful, Silence, Speech

  A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Maharshi Ramana (1968). “Day by Day with Bhagavan: From a Diary of A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Covering March 16, 1945 to January 4, 1947”

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• I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Silence, Violence

  Song: Words I Never Said, Album: Lasers, 2011

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• There is always a melancholic silence before entering every New Year!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  New Year, Years, Silence

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• It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Taken, Dark, Self

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• Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

  Socrates

  Profound, Silence, Noise

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• Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Silence, Answers, Critics

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• Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Distance, Silence

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• It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

  Muriel Spark

  White, Silence, Black

  Muriel Spark (2015). “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, p.11, Canongate Books

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• Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

  Pindar

  Truth, Healing, Men

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• Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.

  Zell Miller

  Yellow, Silence, Golden

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• I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Silence, Loud

  "Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Wise, Blood, Silence

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• When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Silence, Feelings

  Source: www.skyword.com

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