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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. — Elizabeth Bowen

I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain. — Yasunari Kawabata

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind. — Jay Griffiths

In these silences something may rise — Stephen King

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others. — Eve Ensler

Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren't spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking. — David Powning

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences. — Virginia Woolf

Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences. — Virginia Woolf

What about me?" I asked. "Am I mean?" "You aren't mean to me with words," she said. "You're mean to me with your silences. — Sherman Alexie

The had compatible silences. — David Levithan

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. — Elliott Carter

There are silences made just for us. — Roberto Bolano

They don't have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his. — David Levithan

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. — Margaret Lee Runbeck

He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person's life. — Sreesha Divakaran

Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence. — Stefan Molyneux

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace. — Oswald Chambers

What was there to say? It was a matter of silences, not words. — Don DeLillo

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences. — Susan Sontag

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

Author refers to, short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken. — Thomas Hughes

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song. — Bliss Carman

Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than
anything else. — Peter Ackroyd

Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences. — Will Youmans

Numbing the pain never goes to the source of the real issue to make us healthier. It only silences our screaming need for help. — Lysa TerKeurst

That's the thing about silences and futures; someone always comes along to fill them in. If you let them. — Carrie Ryan

A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence? — Kahlil Gibran

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. — Arthur Rimbaud

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences. — Samuel Beckett

You are there with me, aren't you? I and my silences keep talking about you. — Avijeet Das

The silences between us would've been better if they were colored with sadness or regret, but it was worse - I could hear how happy he was to be gone. — Emma Cline

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy. — David Steinberg

Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? — M.I.A.

The child who feels your respect
during silences is nourished more
than the child who is constantly
fussed and chattered over. — Vimala McClure

New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices. — Alison Fell

Your holiness disarms your enemies and silences them. — Sunday Adelaja

The biggest truths are the ones told after the longest silences — S.E. Sever

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. — Bell Hooks

We live between the two great silences: the silence that existed before the world began, and the silence that waits for us at the end of all things. — Lena Coakley

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

I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable. — Arthur Rimbaud

I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences. — Philip Glenister

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty. — Dan Simmons

The words make our silences easier
they're the current that runs under them. — Sue Miller

What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? — Audre Lorde

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. — Mary Webb

Insert the biggest, most awkward silence in the history of big awkward silences. — Cynthia Hand

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. — David Leavitt

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it. — Geraldine Brooks

We know the many noises and the many uglinesses of the universe and that's why we take refuge to the silences and to the beauties! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. — Samuel Beckett

Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love thrive on silences. — Fulton J. Sheen

Sometimes, I just wanted my silences to stay silent, full of thoughts, empty of words. — Maggie Stiefvater

That is the end of absence - the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished. — Anonymous

You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences. — Frederick Buechner

More is said in silences than words ever could. — Avijeet Das

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. — Isabel Allende

'The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects. — Frank Darabont

Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences. — Virginia Woolf

He learned not to mind the silences. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost. — Neale Donald Walsch

If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term. — Alison Weir

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. — Andrea Bocelli

And so the argument was begun, progressing more in the silences than in the speeches, like a chess game played by mail. — Stephen King

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time. — Franz Wright

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth. — Michael Jackson

When these long telephone silences come, it is a sure sign that love is over. — Walker Percy

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences. — Michel-Rolph Trouillot

There are some silences that even words cannot drive away. — Patrick Rothfuss

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses. — Michel Foucault

We were heading into the clumsy territory of my mother's funeral, stretched-out silences, wrong smiles, the place where words didn't work. — Donna Tartt

Because death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then the things he holds closest die with him. — Greg Iles

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo. — Arthur Rimbaud

I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself. — John Ciardi

Somewhere a dog barked. With the help of fear and echoes and winter silences, that dog had a voice like a big bronze gong. — Kurt Vonnegut

Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of. — D.M. Thomas

When the communal silences the individual, every essence within the individual is silenced. — Dew Platt

Your silences remain; they are your biggest mask. — Sreesha Divakaran

Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair. — Nikki Rosen

Ware the cold, human. Ware the ice that grips. The frost that silences. — Ian C. Esslemont

Life laughs at predictions and introduces words where we imagined silences, and sudden returns when we thought we would never see each other again. — Jose Saramago

Mark this down if you can. Silences, not just sentences, form the work of pastoral ministry. Wise pastors are listening preachers. — Zack Eswine

May my silences become more accurate. — Theodore Roethke

Expediency often silences justice. — Seneca The Younger

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. — Stephane Mallarme

there are untruths made of words and untruths made of silences, — Lauren Groff

I think they have compatible silences. — David Levithan

He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.. — Ignatius Of Loyola

Trauma silences a person. It shatters your identity, and along with it, much of what you thought you knew. — Sandra Lee Dennis

Avoiding Germans, they were delivering themselves into rural silences ever more profound. They ate snow. — Kurt Vonnegut

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air. — Robin Gibb

There are silences harder to take back than words. — James Richardson

These silences are lacerating. — Sam Harris

I am interested in silences — Anne Enright

My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak. — Robin Hobb

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile. — Erica Jong

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans — Ben Shapiro

I and my silences keep talking to each other. — Avijeet Das

Silences can be as different as sounds. — Elizabeth Bowen