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Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts. — Marianne Wiggins

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much. — Charlotte Bronte

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

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money. — Eduardo Galeano

Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them. — Faraaz Kazi

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power. — Amit Ray

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119) — Jean-Yves Leloup

If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it? — Frederick Lenz

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

Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself? — John Daido Loori

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. — Diane Setterfield

God's warriors don't avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook. — Shannon L. Alder

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken. — Amy Harmon

For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

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

Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones. — Jeff Shaara

... he didn't needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear. — Toni Morrison

Tao is beyond words and beyond things. It is not expressed either in word or in silence. Where there is no longer word or silence Tao is apprehended. — Zhuangzi

Sticks and stones may break my bones
When aimed with careful art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart — Na

But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy. — Miljenko Jergovic

I'll leave the way of words to walk the wood I'll be the forest's man, and greet the sun, And feel the silence blossom on my tongue like language. — Neil Gaiman

Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in the fantasy. — Julie Harvey Delcourt

Life is a song made of the musical rhythm of the body, words of the mind and the melodious silence of the soul. — Banani Ray

There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference. — Yasmin Mogahed

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it. — Stella Benson

He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands, — Ellis Peters

Lying is done with words, and also with silence. — Adrienne Rich

In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason ? — R.S. Thomas

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. — Phillips Brooks

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. — Paul Simon

There are words, which should leave unspoken, and the true value of a man lies in the words the he has for not saying. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

And so we must dig in to see where raw words and fundamental sounds are buried so that the great silence within can finally be decoded. — Raymond Federman

There's an uncomfortable silence, crackling with tension, unsaid words and vehement intensity. — Pamela Ann

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past.
In silence you can't hide anything ... as you can in words. — August Strindberg

She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too. — Akshay Vasu

real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

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

No words. Just my finger pointing in silence. My finger silently saying, 'Unwrap me, darling. — James Lusarde

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

Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all. — Tanya Huff

It was the way she looked at me the whole time. That look said more than she ever could and, in turn, scared me more than her words alone ever could. — Anna Todd

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. — Pierre Bourdieu

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

You can speak loudly with deep silence — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them. — Alaric Hutchinson

You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands ... — John Geddes

The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all. — Vikrmn

Most times, the best thing people deserve from us is our silence.speak through silence and it will be more powerful than harsh words — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people. — Nathalie Abi-Ezzi

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails. — Ramana Maharshi

When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet — Strider Marcus Jones

When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates. — Akshay Vasu

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. — William Faulkner

I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence. — Charlotte Eriksson

Yet, the most wonderful in my heart remains unsaid and it will remain so forever! — Preeth Nambiar

And jewels and words are no less and no more necessary than cotton and silence. — Charles Williams

Silence is not absence of words. Silence is the space where words arise and dissolve. Without silence, words have no meaning — Rashmit Kalra

why talk and say the unsaid words in haste when silence can speak the unspoken words? — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence. — Yehuda Amichai

Writing is a struggle against the silence where words can have a powerful impact in just a split second and change your life forever ... — Lisa Jones

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words. — Epictetus

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence. — Cristen Rodgers

In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer. — Mary Todd Lincoln

Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind. — Ken Cohen