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But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.
The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.
There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite.
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.
One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.
Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker
Of all the sounds that touch my soul these days, the most beautiful one of all is silence.
There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
The Left wants to silence conservative Christians in the media and in the political square.
The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?
And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.
Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
I move in silence. I don't like puttin' too much of me out there to be dissected, analyzed.
If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.
Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.
Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.
This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]
Silence not only lets you listen but to see things with much more clarity than you ever can.
The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
Silence can be a very powerful tool. Sometimes it's more powerful to leave you with nothing.
Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
I like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.
There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.
Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.
So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.
There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.
I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.
I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.
Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.