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Silence Quotes by Nicole Krauss
- There's no match for the silence of GOD.
- To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening…
- He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have…
- Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do,…
- There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary…
- At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would…
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