Silence Quotes
3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors
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Only a man of inner silences becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very creativity, their very…
— Rajneesh
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The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of…
— Rajneesh
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Real creativity comes only out of silence.
— Rajneesh
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Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give…
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.
— Peter of Alcantara
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Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about me and it…
— Harold S. Kushner
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It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to…
— Thomas a Kempis
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
— Virginia Woolf
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Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
— Unknown Author
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To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are…
— Mabel Collins
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The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.
— Bernadette Roberts
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You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.
— Josemaria Escriva
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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…
— Hans Arp
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The very presence of an angel is communication. Even when an angel crosses your path in silence, God has said to us, I am here.…
— Unknown Author
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When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one…
— André Brink
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Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean of calm, which…
— Unknown Author
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something…
— Anton Chekhov
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When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like…
— Eugene Ionesco
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The friend of silence comes close to God.
— John Climacus
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My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my…
— Unknown Author
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The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses…
— Alex Kozinski
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The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane…
— Frances Densmore
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