Quotes with silence

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  • Jeanette Winterson Unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.
    Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal (2011)
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Alfred Jarry We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • C. S. Lewis We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
    The Weight of Glory (1949)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Mother Teresa We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Martin Luther King We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Martin Farquhar Tupper Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
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  • Bruce Jackson When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Alice Hamilton When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Walt Whitman When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • David Leavitt When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
    David Leavitt
    American novelist and biographer (1961 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh When the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Carlyle When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ansel Adams When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Britney Spears When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Samuel Beckett 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 dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Federico Garcia Lorca With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
    Federico Garcia Lorca
    Spanish poet and playwright (1898 - 1936)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • George Eliot Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Cameron Diaz You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
    Cameron Diaz
    American actress, author, producer, and model (1972 - )
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