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Silence Quotes
"In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash."
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"For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day."
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"Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?"
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"Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word."
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"I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said."
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"The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness."
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"Silence is the invisible door to God. Silence is the inner door to become one with God."
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"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
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"I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born."
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"Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion."
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"She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence."
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"She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror."
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"Let silence be your guide, and it will reveal all answers."
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"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."
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"Silence is a time of reflection to bring peace and meaning to your life, and to those around you. This deafening quiescence will mean different things to different people but if they listen carefully, they will understand..."
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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"I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded."
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"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."
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"That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence."
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"Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions."
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"Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed."
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"Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know."
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"Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!"
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"Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?"
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"When silence greets you, listen for those powerful words lost within the void of reason..."
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"Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don't have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!"
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"Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!"
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