Silence Is Quotes - Page 8

• Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

  Annie Dillard

  Block, Silence, World

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.65, Canongate Books

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• People keep planning their lives
  searching security and comfort.
  This silence is the only security I know
  those who can understand will understand.

  Rajneesh

  People, Silence, Comfort

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• The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.

  Margaret Haddix

  Mother, Father, Silence

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: "Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!. What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The Holy Silence is His voice!

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Sweet, Morning, Thinking

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• We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or because it takes time to distill what we've read before we can say anything. Silence is our guarantee of intimacy. We might have finished reading but we`re still living the book.

  Daniel Pennac

  Book, Reading, Silence

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• Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

  Joseph Addison

  Silence, Sublime, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.251

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• The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Betrayal, Night, Agony

  "A Time to Break Silence". Speech at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City, www.deanza.edu. April 04, 1967.

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• What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Silence, Sound

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 12, 2013

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• In music, silence is more important than sound.

  Miles Davis

  Silence, Important, Experience

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• Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

  Robert Adams

  Appreciation, Art, Silence

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

  Paul Brunton

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Luxury

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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• The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Self, Silence

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• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

  Paul Brunton

  Teaching, Luxury, Yield

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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• Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

  Annie Dillard

  Destiny, Silence, Heritage

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.65, Canongate Books

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• Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm. Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.

  Franny Billingsley

  Father, Silence, Twists

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.15, Penguin

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• GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me

  Leonard Cohen

  Hands, Silence, Knows

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• Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Horse, Two, Phones

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.47, Knopf

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• That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Silence, Wonderful

  1872 Under the Greenwood Tree, ch.14.

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• Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

  Buster Keaton

  Silence, Monkeys, Chatter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The silence is perfect, and yet a torment.

  Carol Shields

  Perfect, Silence, Torment

  Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

  Mitch Albom

  Broken, Silence, Knows

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• Their silence is enough praise.

  Terence

  Silence, Praise, Enough

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• Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.

  Rowan Williams

  Integrity, Silence

  Rowan Williams (2007). “Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another”, p.43, Shambhala Publications

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• My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.

  Henry Rollins

  Night, Hands, Silence

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• See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.

  Sarah Dessen

  Silence, Loud

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.147, Penguin

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