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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

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

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

Pierre held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful bosom as it rose and fell. — Leo Tolstoy

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

Stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are. — Audre Lorde

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

The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive. — J.K. Rowling

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God — Jerome K. Jerome

He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to get chaotic or crazy. — Tyson Fury

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

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

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. — Edith Sitwell

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

the word silence is still a sound, to speak is in itself to imagine knowing; and to no longer know, it would be necessary to no longer speak — Georges Bataille

Work hard in silence, and let your success be your noise — Frank Ocean

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

We just sat there on the sofa and looked at each other, a kind of unspoken mutual understanding filling the silence. — Cally Taylor

Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing. — Emmi Itaranta

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

You made the chaos in me feel less like a violent whirling and gave me a silence that felt like home. — William C. Hannan

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I wanted to pull the thread, unravel the scarf of my silence and start again from the beginning. — Jonathan Safran Foer

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

The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude. — Abhijit Naskar

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

Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation. — Alison Goodman

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

Everything is dead, the dead are everywhere. There are only people, and all around them is silence - that's the earth. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way. — Loretta Young

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence. — Ellen Willis

And then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me. — Bram Stoker

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

I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory. — Claudia Gray

Peace reigned in silence, inside and out, in isolation and exhaustion. — Steven Erikson

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

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. — Margaret Atwood

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance. — Claudia Black

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend. — Van Morrison

I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence with pride and honor. — Pink

a time to v keep silence, and a time to speak; — Anonymous

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. — Aeschylus

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues — Benjamin Franklin

Fear makes you silent when you need to be loud and loud when you need silence. — Elizabeth Vaughan

And heard the green birds singing/ from the other side of silence
pg. 36// A Coney Island of the Mind — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment ... — Carol Shields

Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die? — Gail Carriger

Some of the worst elements of Guyland rest on the twin pillars of men's silence and women's compliance. — Michael Kimmel

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

A gripper of a read ... Silence revives the cliff's-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory's death. — Bruce Barcott

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God — Soren Kierkegaard

The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain. — Carlos Castaneda

Love is never silent; it is spoken in every moment and even in the silence it enfolds you and strengthens you — John Webber

Even in silence and darkness, the heart can see more beauty than the eyes. — Debasish Mridha

Silence equals death, we'd say. And underneath that would be the assumption - the fear - that death equaled silence. — David Levithan

Through our consciousness, we can enter the stillness of silence and become blessed with the universal presence of peace. — Georgi Y. Johnson

There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance. — Harlan Coben

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go. — Bryan Procter

Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence. — George R R Martin

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

Silence, daughter. Stay alive. — Amy Harmon

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

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Come back
believer in shade
believer in silence and elegance
believer in ferns
believer in patience
believer in the rain — W.S. Merwin

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

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

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

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

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible. — Sri Chinmoy

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

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

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

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

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

The requiem has started, and when the last melody plays, the only applause will be sweet, eternal silence. — Julie Kagawa

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

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. — Marcel Marceau

Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence. — David Bowie

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. — C.S. Lewis

There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence. — Ellin Devis

Yet accurate speech about anything, and especially about God, is in fact a rhythm of silence and speech, speaking and listening. — Ellen F. Davis

I didn't know what to do or say, so I just sat as quietly as he did. The silence got so big and real that it felt like three people sat on the porch. — Sherman Alexie

Silence is victory and patience is glory.
Let silence speak our identity
and let patience keep our dignity. — Aram Seriteratai

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

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

Silence itself seemed to flow from him like a dark tide, black and thick as ink. It chilled her bones. — Cassandra Clare

If the Domain is destroyed, I have condemned my husband to an eternity of darkness, silence, with only his own rage and madness to keep him company. — Greg Bear

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you. — Paramahansa Yogananda

The stars once spoke to man. It is world destiny that they are silent now, but in their silence there grows and ripens what man speaks to the stars! — Rudolf Steiner

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence. — Saul Williams

Silence, exile, cunning and so on ... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. — Don DeLillo