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They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down. — Michel Faber

The shadow of sharks is the shadow of death, and they call forth dim ultimate fears. Yet there is something holy in their silence. — Peter Matthiessen

It was a silence so deep, so still, that a man could finally hear the beating of his own heart, the gentle whispers of the soul. — Kamran Pasha

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence. — Marianne Moore

You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices. — Helene Cardona

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk. — Jackson Beck

A man was taken to the Zoo and shown the giraffe. After gazing at it a little in silence: 'I don't believe it,' he said. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing. — Richard Rohr

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train. — Carl Hiaasen

You think of nothing but yourself. If you want to kill yourself, what's keeping you?' I said. Silence sat between out stares.
'Fear,' he said. — Ruta Sepetys

A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence. — James Sheridan Knowles

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

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

You are the silence between the notes. The white space between the letters. The missing that makes everything else a something. — Pleasefindthis

Isn't it strange how silence, in a way, has a sound of its own? — Greg Gifune

And the wind falls silent, and the birds fall silent, and the wild cherry trees no longer shiver and creek. — Daniel Arsand

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

One day you realise your old life was only an escape from an inner silence — Judy Croome

Most people don't know how to appreciate the silence. They can't help talking. — Nicholas Sparks

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life. — Giancarlo Esposito

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in. — Haruki Murakami

One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated. — Gary Cooper

Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. — Nicholas Sparks

So, funny story. There are fairies? In the Dark Woods. And I might have pissed off their king."
There was silence. Then, "Of course you did. — T.J. Klune

Enjoy the silence — Depeche Mode

Silence is the language of inertia. — Margaret Heffernan

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music. — Chogyam Trungpa

a craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech, — Susan Sontag

It was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet. — Lisa Kleypas

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. — Simonides

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

He always imagined that silence was somehow directed against him. Or that it was his fault. — Amos Oz

If we are to know the Lord, we must go to Him. Listen to Him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach Him in the Sacraments. — Pope Francis

He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere — Richard Powers

The pair sat in silence: the ancient god from across the oceans who had retired, the human host of an ancient god visiting from the heavens. — Adam Christopher

Muse [10w]
Poetry's a collaboration with your muse.
Silence!
Let her speak. — Beryl Dov

There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words. — Randeep Hooda

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember. — Elizabeth Berg

And isn't silence, in its way, a good sign? That everything is well, that the ship is still steaming safely away from shore? — Justin Cronin

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I said go away!"
"No, you said 'get out'. I'm out."
"Now go away."
Silence. And then, "No. — Diana Peterfreund

Silence is an arguement hard to refute — Anonymous

Silence is the true friend that never betrays. — Confucius

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery. — Charles Bukowski

Freediving is about silence ... the silence that comes from within.. — Jacques Mayol

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Master: When a human being asks 'WHO AM I?', the honest answer is eternal silence.
Disciple: Do we make noise to feel that silence, Master? — Saurabh Sharma

Days become weeks. Weeks become months. Month become years. And years become silence. — Christy Hall

To many mortals silence great gain brings. — Aeschylus

Silence is the voice of the mystery. Silence let us dream again. — John O'Donohue

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. — Faith Baldwin

The stars are God's dreams, thoughts remembered in the silence of his night. — Henry David Thoreau

In his time since Sarnak, Froi had come to learn as much about the power of silence as the power of words. — Melina Marchetta

Belief that we know all & we are always right
Leads to distance & silence
Keep learning & Keep Expressing ... — Adil Adam Memon

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking. — Ajahn Brahm

A secret is safer in the heart than on the tongue. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart. — Richard Jackson

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth. — Glenn Beck

Calumnies are answered best with silence. — Ben Jonson

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. — Henry David Thoreau

First Embody the Emptiness of Silence
Next Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love
Thus Be Heaven
Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH ... — Omid Mankoo

Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence. — Jalaluddin Rumi

When silence greets you, listen for those powerful words lost within the void of reason... — Virginia Alison

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them. — H.P. Lovecraft

What we can't speak, we say in silence. — Hillary Jordan

The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak. — Armin Wiebe

When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; — Edward Lear

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

In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted. — Dada Bhagwan

Friends understand the unsaid words, no matter if they are silent for years. — Vikrmn

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book. — Jonathan Franzen

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

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

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

At times, love is silent because of too much hurt or too much care. At all times,
love is the strongest voice you can always rely on. — Soar

His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse. — Davis Miller

In the silence, the bear died. It was a cute death, with funny music. — Orson Scott Card

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves. — Cormac McCarthy

Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. — Philip Pullman

Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. — William Hazlitt

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence. — Eckhart Tolle

she understood he was lonely and that their ritual comforted him, connected the noises of her life with the silence of his — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Silence has its own colour to paint the truth — Munia Khan

My eyes have never seen the moon so lovely as tonight;
In silence wrapped, it is the breathless music of the night. — Galaktion Tabidze

Unnatural silence signifies no good. — Sophocles

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

Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me. — Maggie Stiefvater

Do you want to build a snowman~ Dongwon (Normal Class 8) — Youngpaka

Silence has stuffed itself into every corner of this building. — Tahereh Mafi

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her. — Khaled Hosseini

The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. — Hannah More

Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions. — Christine Pelosi

The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud. — David Levithan

Do not speak - unless it improves on silence. — Gautama Buddha

most people are perfectly afraid of silence — E. E. Cummings