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Silence Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
- Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
- One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.
- Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence
- For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is…
- How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings…
- The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People…
- I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what…
- I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
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