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We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.
As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.
True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
I just want silence... Jesus, it doesn't mean I don't like you. It just means right now, I like silence more.
It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.
Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.
Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
Imams seldom condemn terror. And in their silence, in the void, acceptance - encouragement even - is assumed.
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights.
Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.
Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.
I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.
Each day, each noise I gather explodes, leaving me to death; to rest in the solace of silence & to be re-born.
A person truly evolves from his own silence and one such can keep the people around him in the awe of silence.
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.
Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.
The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.
I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.
True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.
Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.
Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.
In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.
Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.
Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.