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Mother Theresa

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.

HOOD: _Sonnet, Silence._

There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,-- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.

Jean Arp

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

HOOD: _Autumn._

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 598.

Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd.

Andrew Schneider

Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky.

Tom Blair

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

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.

Horace

With silence favor me.

Anon.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Confucius

Silence is a friend who will never betray.

Danish proverb

Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.

Bryan Ferry

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Confucius

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

American Indian Proverb

Silence has so much meaning.

Adrienne Rich

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

A. A. Attanasio

Silence is a text easy to misread.

Muhammad Ali

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Unknown

The only successful substitute for brains is silence.

Jacqui Webb

Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some...

William Shakespeare

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

Pam Brown

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

Thomas Hardy

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Alfred Jarry

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Plutarch

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI: _Rest._

Silence more musical than any song.

Marcel Marceau

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Charles De Gaulle

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Margaret Halsey

Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

George Bernard Shaw

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Thomas Carlyle

Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Dave Tyson Gentry

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Thomas Powers

The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Leon Samson

The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.

Edith Sitwell

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Alice Walker

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

SHAKS.: _Wint. Tale,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

CAMPBELL: _Battle of the Baltic._

There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time.

Thomas Carlyle

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.

Kahlil Gibran

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

H. G. Mendelson

Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.

Aldous Huxley

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

Albert Camus

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

John Tillotson

A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

Ask me about my vow of silence.

The rest is silence.

The price of seeing is silence.

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Your very silence shows you agree.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Silence is more musical than any song.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Music is the messenger no one can silence.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.