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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

Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots. — Lex Allen

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.

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage. — Tim Ward

We belong to talking, not what talking is about ... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion. — Zygmunt Bauman

Unhappiness loves company. Unhappiness can't stand silence - especially not the uneasy silence that settles in when it is all alone. — Herman Koch

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 Silence
surreal 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

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. — Felicia Hemans

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

It is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. — Audre Lorde

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence. — Elie Wiesel

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Building confidence comes from overcoming the voice in your head that says you are not capable; silence the noise and then prove it wrong. — Sam Owen

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

My silence is not my weakness, I am conserving my energy to destroy the evil — Samrat

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly. — Benjamin Franklin

They walked as old friends walk, without often speaking, sharing the kind of silence that is not so much silence as a kind of still communication. — Susan Cooper

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

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence. — Samuel Butler

When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence. — Anthony De Mello

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

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking. — George Sand

There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer. — Terry Tempest Williams

Make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came.
Wendell Berry — Wendell Berry

In the world I am
Always 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

When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me. — Thomas Harris

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

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing...
One loud noise, and it's gone. — Alan Moore

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

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

Time does not heal all wounds; if a man is not careful, time erases wounds. Then what is he left with? The cold and the silence. — Doug Rice

Heden chose to shut up. He could not remember ever regretting silence. — Matthew Colville

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them. — Saint Basil

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

Silence and patience are not merely cowardliness, its a symbol of strength. — Rahul Rawat

If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. — Loren Eiseley

I had dedicated my life to words. But sometimes, words are not needed. — Jordan L. Hawk

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.

I know he was not angry with me- he could not be angry with me- and yet his silence felt like anger to me, as cold and raging as fury. — Kailin Gow

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

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. — Pindar

This was killing her. She had to break the silence. This was not natural. It was too awful. People were
meant to talk. — Julia Quinn

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence. — Catherine Tate

Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate ... not following the thought stream ... — Mooji

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

It's not about me being good enough for you, Fletcher. It's whether you're good enough for me. Silence. And then hang-up beeps. — J.A. Huss

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

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. — John Milton

Silence is not just the absence of sound: there is a sound called silence. — Haruki Murakami

Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept. — Warren G. Bennis

Love is not a fairground it needs no noise no sounds just the silence of your first kiss — Colin Tegerdine

Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy. — Gerald May

Your silence is not acceptable. — Donna Tartt