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Silence Quotes

"Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does."

Isak Dinesen, Danish Writer

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"Share them with only people who can help you with information and support. When you meet negative people, zip your mouth."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Silence, Support, Negativity, Communication

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"Silence is so accurate."

Mark Rothko, American Artist

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"Great souls suffer in silence."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, French Novelist

"I continued to protect him with my silence."

Joyce Maynard, American Writer

"A silent mind is a powerful mind."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

"Silence is more eloquent than words."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

"Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things."

Ernest Renan, French Philosopher

Silence, Sorrow

"When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!"

Jonathan Demme, American Director

"When you are silent, you can hear the truth."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Silence, Awareness

"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

"Listen to the sound of silence."

Paul Simon, American Musician

"Silence is the unbearable repartee."

Alexander Theroux, American Author

"A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall."

Jean Stafford, American Writer

"Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence."

Margaret Halsey, American Author

Silence, Sound, Talk

"Silence may be as variously shaded as speech."

Edith Wharton, American Author

Silence, May, Speech

"The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell."

Joyce Maynard, American Writer

"I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall."

Trey Anastasio, American Musician

"Only silence perfects silence."

A. R. Ammons, American Poet

"The most boring thing in the world? Silence."

Justin Timberlake, American Musician

"Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid."

Homer, Greek Poet

Silence, Wind, Words

"No one nor anything can silence me."

Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian Scientist

"Be silent and listen to the song of your soul."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Silence, Silent, Listen, Song, Soul

"Your silence will not protect you."

Audre Lorde, American Poet

"You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

"When I listen and enjoy the deepest silence I hear the sound of universal love and lose myself completely."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Silence, Love, Universe, Harmony

"Silence is better than unmeaning words."

Pythagoras, Greek Mathematician

"Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Silence, Silent, Message, Love, Compassion

"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."

Pythagoras, Greek Mathematician

Silence, Value, Word, Words

"Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted."

Bob Monkhouse, English Comedian

"We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts."

Alfred Jarry, French Writer

Silence, Applause

"A story is told as much by silence as by speech."

Susan Griffin, American Writer

Silence, Speech

"I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run."

Aishwarya Rai, Indian Actress

"He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence."

William Dean Howells, American Author

"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Silence, Meditation

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Silence, Speech

"Silence is more musical than any song."

Christina Rossetti, British Poet

"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Silence, Speech, Voice

"It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights."

Brittany Daniel, American Actress

"You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?"

Bryan Ferry, English Musician

"Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?"

Sophocles, Greek Poet

"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Silence, Wisdom

"Silence moves faster when it's going backward."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

"And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book."

Jonathan Franzen, American Novelist

"The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over."

Peter Sarsgaard, American Actor

"I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

Silence, Regret

"Let silence be your guide, and it will reveal all answers."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Silence, Wisdom

"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

Silence, Fool, Tongue, Will

"Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion."

Marilu Henner, American Actress

Silence, Solitude

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