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Michael tried to focus, but he found himself consumed by his past, by the memories he had tried to silence. — Brittney Sahin

My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh and the stench of death. — Christine Fonseca

I knew what she thought of them by the changes in her silence — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill. — Anne Frank

The only answer that I give to you
is doing it," he said. "A just request
is to be met in silence, by the act. — Dante Alighieri

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

They were shadows in the dark, cocooned in its secrets, bathed in its silence, enspelled by each other. — J.D. Robb

Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic

Silence as they crept in towards the island. Hal navigated by the compass, — Wilbur Smith

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

By and by ... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine. — Rajneesh

I die a little more, still in silence, paralysed by you, in fear, in pain. — Poppet

The wise have inherited wisdom by means of silence and contemplation. — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true. — Joseph Addison

Dead silence filled the room. Five Whitecloaks stood in the middle of the floor, studiously being ignored by the folk at the tables. — Robert Jordan

You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time. — Norton Juster

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom. — William Hazlitt

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us, — Sandra Fluke

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence. — Umberto Eco

IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES. — Nadia Sahari

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places. — Kate Mosse

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith. — Irvine Welsh

I can listen no longer in silence.
I must speak to you by such means
As are within my reach.
You pierce my soul. — Jane Austen

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame. — M.L. Stedman

You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I look up. And I am surrounded by the universe.
silence
and stars
A million suns stretch out beyond me, their light piercing the darkness. — Beth Revis

Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence. — Louis Sachar

But though we love kind Peace so well,
We dare not even by silence sanction lies. — Alfred Tennyson

We don't have to experience shame to be paralyzed by it - the fear of being perceived as unworthy is enough to force us to silence our stories. — Brene Brown

Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be outraged by silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. — Edith Wharton

The companion of patience is silence. — T.F. Hodge

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape. — Mary Ruefle

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. — Mason Cooley

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure. — Jake Vander Ark

Growth takes place in a person by working at a deep inner level in a sustained atmosphere of silence. — Ira Progoff

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together. — Darlene Craviotto

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth. — Peter Of Alcantara

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile. — Erica Jong

He hears the silence howling catches angels as they fall, and the all time winner has got him by the fun. — Jethro Tull

Other response, he said, I make thee not,
Except the doing; for the modest asking
Ought to be followed by the deed in silence. — Dante Alighieri

Don't be distracted by the noise going on. Pause & reflect. You'll realize how much time you've wasted on all that nonsense around you. — Mufti Ismail Menk

Respect by silence is silence by respect.
Petra Hermans
October 23, 2016 — Petra Hermans

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words. — Ayn Rand

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce. — Saint Francis De Sales

Mind can hear a song sung by heart
when no sound is heard by the ears. — Toba Beta

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. — Pam Brown

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love. — Henry David Thoreau

Silence is argument carried out by other means. — Ernesto Che Guevara

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence. — Ramana Maharshi

In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps. — Dejan Stojanovic

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says. — Wendell Berry

In the silence of the night, streetlights talk each other by touching their lights each other! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice. — Susan Marsh

Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls. — Sylvia Plath

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence. — Tom Perrotta

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. — Francis Beaumont

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict. — Anthony Lewis

A heavy silence was followed by a vibration beneath their feet and Iko's voice. I don't compute. — Marissa Meyer

For most secrets are kept by these: the darkness, the silence, and the cat. — Wendy Beck

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force
is to win an intellectual argument,
then you admit the right to silence people by force. — Hans Eysenck

Silence is not broken by speech, but by the anxiety to be heard. — Thomas Merton

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction. — Hugh Leonard

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. — Thomas Carlyle

Silence was a thing entrusted to the animals, the girl thought. Many things that human words have harmed are restored again by the silence of animals — Joy Williams

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said. — Pope John XXIII

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly. — Ausonius

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. — William Dean Howells

A story is told as much by silence as by speech. — Susan Griffin

Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it. — Steve Tibbetts

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it — Hannah More

We all arrive by different streets, by unequal languages, at Silence. — Pablo Neruda

When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling down, serenaded by a brace of trombones, scream — Dambudzo Marechera

Music is the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves; it's defined as much by silence as by sound. — James McKean

Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence. — Swami Dhyan Giten

Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants. — Jon Krakauer

I've been ignored by prettier women than you,
but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence
so far, without spilling a drop. — Jeffrey McDaniel

Outrageous ... that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort. — Radclyffe Hall

Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma. — Chevy Chase

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. — Emily Bronte

The catacombs where ghostly bodies lie. In the silence you hear the screams go by. — Jackie Mae

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear. — Sharon E. Rainey

Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable. — Jane Hirshfield

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed. — John Dryden

Since nothing is absolute
There is no absolute silence,
Only an appearance
Of temporary peace. — Dejan Stojanovic

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. — Dag Hammarskjold

Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness. — Kalki Bhagavan

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language. — Fulton J. Sheen

I wanted to stop her; in the darkness and silence we occasionally managed to throw off our despair for a while by making each other forget. — Stanislaw Lem

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. — Charles Simmons

Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

New Rome will be destroyed
By the attacks of new vandals.
God always remains silent. — Dejan Stojanovic