396 Silence Quotes for You to Enjoy

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. Jimmy Reid

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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. Samuel Beckett

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Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. Archibald MacLeish

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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Benjamin Franklin

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Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. Samuel Beckett

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

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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. Albert Camus

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Jean Arp

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I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog. Om Malik

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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents. Paramahansa Yogananda

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart. Phyllis McGinley

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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. Plutarch

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These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed. Ricky Martin

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The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame. Viola Davis

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Silence is more eloquent than words. Thomas Carlyle

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If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. George Eliot

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude. H. P. Lovecraft

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If I'm walking down the street, and if a person abuses me, the dignified thing to do is to keep walking, but if that person starts throwing stones into my home and affects the well-being of me and my family, then that silence is no longer strength; that silence becomes weakness. Hrithik Roshan

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence. Jay Griffiths

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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. Karen Armstrong

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Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. Susan Sontag

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The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. Thomas Jefferson

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