Silence Is Quotes (page 6)

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• eyes
• friends
• kiss

The world ain't so bad, when you got Japhies, I thought, and felt glad. All the aching muscles and the hunger in my belly were bad enough, and the surroundant dark rocks, the fact that there is nothing to soothe you with kisses and soft words, but just to be sitting there meditating and praying for the world with another earnest young man -- 'twere good enough to have been born just to die, as we all are. Something will come of it in the Milky Ways of eternity stretching in front of all our... Jack Kerouac

• silence
• dark
• space

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i. e., the interval. Marshall McLuhan

• silence
• manly
• things

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

• silence
• humanity
• misunderstanding

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Henry David Thoreau

• silence
• though
• admission

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. Marcus Tullius Cicero

• art
• silence
• dead

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. Thomas Carlyle

• marriage
• silence
• proposal

A virgin's silence is the proper answer to a marriage proposal; it signifies a dignified consent. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

• silence
• wonder
• wonderful

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to. Thomas Hardy

• feeling
• world
• childhood

Curious,' the Prince continued, after a deep silence, 'is it possible never to have known something, never to have missed it in its absence -- and a few moments later to live in and for that single experience alone? Can a single moment make a man so different from himself? It would be just as impossible for me to return to the joys and wishes of yesterday morning as it would for me to return to the games of childhood, now that I have seen that object, now that her image dwells here -- and I... Friedrich Schiller

• silence
• mountain
• thoughts

I felt like telling Japhy everything I thought but I knew it didn't matter and moreover he knew it anyway and silence is the golden mountain. Jack Kerouac

• time
• silence
• importance time

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

• hurt
• waiting
• light

I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts. E. L. Konigsburg

• time
• silence
• new

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning. Yukio Mishima

• music
• dream
• silence

When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark. Wislawa Szymborska

• silence
• saying
• go

Go to where the silence is and say something. Amy Goodman