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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
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.
— Thomas Merton
Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.
— Audre Lorde
Will people not be thrown face down into Hell only on account of the harvest of their tongue?
— Anonymous
The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We belong to talking, not what talking is about ... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
— Zygmunt Bauman
I wish not to tell you how I feel,I choose silence so that you leave,
Kiss me goodbye and set me free... — Sanhita Baruah
Solace of Silencesurreal synapses
of a melancholy drone
a dream per chance
she dared not be alone ... — Muse
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
— William Rose Benet
When we are, love is not.When we are not, love is. — Swami Dhyan Giten
Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.
— Emmi Itaranta
But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.
— E. M. Forster
Still waters run deep, I'd thought. Later, I learned that silence did not necessarily guarantee depth.
— Jennifer Weiner
It is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
— Audre Lorde
The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Zangiacomo band was not making music; it was simply murdering silence with a vulgar, ferocious energy.
— Joseph Conrad
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
— Victor Hugo
Silence is not a langauge, its a weapon to make your dear one to feel
— William Shakespeare
Silence is not broken by speech, but by the anxiety to be heard.
— Thomas Merton
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
— Benjamin Franklin
Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
— Thomas Merton
Silence was not good.
— Rose Wynters
A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.
— Gloria Naylor
There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.
— Terry Tempest Williams
In the world I amAlways a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence — Bei Dao
Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.
— Caroline Myss
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.
— Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
You will not look at me," she heard him say to the valets. "You will see only her." A silence. Then, "And you will not look at her breasts.
— Karen Marie Moning
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
— Nana Mouskouri
Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.
— Annie Proulx
After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward ... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.
— Isabel Allende
Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.
— Emmi Itaranta
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
— Saint John Chrysostom
It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.
— Henri De Lubac
She could not be complying, she dreaded being quarrelsome; her heroism reached only to silence.
— Jane Austen
Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle with words.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.
— Jeanette Winterson
Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.
— Samantha Power
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
— Decimius Magnus Ausonius
Silence in the face of evil is evil itself: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important.
— Christie Watson
Thanks," I said after a small stretch of silence, "for not giving up on me.
— Alexandra Bracken
There is a silence. But sometimes it's as dangerous not to speak. "Yes,
— Margaret Atwood
One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.
— Suzanne Curchod
The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it.
— Suzette Haden Elgin
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
— Samuel Johnson
He sits in silence, and his eyes are definitely not the man I know. They're wistful, lonely, and so beautiful I have to close mine. "I
— Sally Thorne
Heden chose to shut up. He could not remember ever regretting silence.
— Matthew Colville
People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
— Ezra Pound
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
— Isabel Allende
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
— William Hazlitt
Do not speak - unless it improves on silence.
— Gautama Buddha
This was killing her. She had to break the silence. This was not natural. It was too awful. People weremeant to talk. — Julia Quinn
I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.
— Catherine Tate
After a silence, because he knew me well, he said, Not all wounds are the bleeding kind.
— Dean Koontz
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
Most of the conversations we are ever likely to have with people are the things we do not and cannot say
— Srividya Srinivasan
So many of his problems were of a kind that other people did not understand, that he got used to working them out for himself, in silence.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.
— Eckhart Tolle
I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like.
— Noor Iskandar
Silence is no weakness of language.It is, on the contrary, its strength.
It is the weakness of words not to know this. — Edmond Jabes
Privilege does not operate without silence.
— Junot Diaz
When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us.
— Colum McCann
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
— Victor Hugo
Love is not a fairground it needs no noise no sounds just the silence of your first kiss
— Colin Tegerdine
Your silence is not acceptable.
— Donna Tartt