SILENCE QUOTES VII

quotations about silence

Silence is so freaking loud.

SARAH DESSEN

Just Listen

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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

XENOCRATES

attributed, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

VITTORIO ALFIERI

La Congiura de' Pazzi

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Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

WALTER LIPPMANN

Public Opinion

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Down through the starry intervals,
Upon this weary-laden world,
How soft the soul of Silence falls!
How deep the spell wherewith she thralls,
How wide her mantle is unfurled.

MARY CLEMMER AMES

"Silence"

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I love your silences, they are like mine.

ANAIS NIN

Under a Glass Bell

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness -- imperfection -- and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

Marginalia

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Saying nothing ... sometimes says the most.

EMILY DICKINSON

letter to Mrs. Joseph A. Sweetser, January 1874


Silence is one of the hardest kinds of arguments to refute.

H. W. SHAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

Tales from Earthsea

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It's not the shouting
Or the angry words
It's not those looks
Sideways glancing
It's not do as I say
It's not compliance
It's the silence

COREY GLOVER

"Silence"


Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

Harold

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He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

MARK HELPRIN

attributed, Quotable Quotes


When two have met, and caught in sudden gleams
Life's full completeness measured each in each,
There is no silence evermore; what seems
So, verily is the very gold of speech.

CLARA MARCELLE FARRAR GREENE

"Silence"

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There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

MADISON CAWEIN

Haunters of the Silence


Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.

NORTON JUSTER

The Phantom Tollbooth


Behind the word is silence. Behind that silence is forgetfulness.

GIANNINA BRASCHI

Empire of Dreams


Silence is learned by the many misfortunes of life.

SENECA

Thyestes

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