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Silence Quotes by George Eliot
- Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all…
- Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
- Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
- Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice…
- 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…
- I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the…
- Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to…
- We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
More Silence Quotes
- I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. — Karen Armstrong
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. — Francis Bacon
- Silence is the virtue of fools. — Francis Bacon
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac
- First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil
- Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. — Samuel Beckett
- Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. — Samuel Beckett
- My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around… — Adele
- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley