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To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly. — Terry Tempest Williams

I must keep silent. Silent. And let Love describe itself. — Rumi

Listen . Keep silent .
You are not gods mouthpiece.
Try to be an ear. — Rumi

Son of man, keep not silent, forget not deeds of tyranny. Cry out at the disaster of a people, recount it unto your children and they unto theirs. — Yehuda L. Bialer

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto. — John Updike

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions. — Cornelia Otis Skinner

No" in the room might signal to everyone that they should keep silent. — Sam Killermann

The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth. — Rolf Jacobsen

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. — Muriel Spark

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent. — Blaise Pascal

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong. — Hugh Allen

Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you. — Ursula Parrott

If you get a hard word from any one, keep silent, and his own conscience will accuse him. — Leo Tolstoy

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. — Paul Ryan

Much they would like to share their joy at some triumph or their grief at some overwhelming sadness, it's always best and safest to keep silent. — Paulo Coelho

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women. — Sophocles

But if Satan speaks sometimes, God keep silent, always. We have to find the answers alone. — Rene Barjavel

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan

Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,If they keep silent before the learned. — Thiruvalluvar

The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To be silent, to keep myself absolutely hidden, nothing else. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness — Rumi

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent. — Confucius

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. — Victor Hugo

He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment. — Martin Heidegger

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts. — Janet Malcolm

See and keep silent. — Francis Walsingham

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent. — Pierre Nicole

The man dies in all those that keep silent. — Wole Soyinka

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent. — Jean De La Bruyere

Everything died off and disappeared in that silent way only an eon can absorb and keep secret. — Charles D'Ambrosio

I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself. — Sadegh Hedayat

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

A man shall not boast of his keenness of mind, But keep it close in his breast; To the silent and wise does ill come seldom — Anonymous

Every man has at least one nightmare he'd like to keep to himself. — Amber Silvia

Coins always make sound but currency notes are always silent, so when ever your value increases keep yourself calm and silent. — William Shakespeare

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster. — L.P. Hartley

The trouble with women is that they talk too much. It would be good if human beings would keep as silent as this cat. — Soseki Natsume

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only. — Teresa Of Avila

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows. — Neil Gaiman

No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips. — Jed Rubenfeld

If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger. — Gautama Buddha