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Silence Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
- and silence is the golden mountain
- I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and…
- Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on.…
- Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now…
- God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was…
- The silence was an intense roar.
- Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing her eyes. I…
- Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there…
- How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your…
- The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious…
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