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Silent Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.
- Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad
- Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation. You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold, comes at…
- I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my…
- Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we…
- Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you…
- In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting,…
More Silent Quotes
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. — Bill Ayers
- The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac
- The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. — Honore de Balzac
- Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson
- Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act. — Annie Besant
- Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of… — Jean de la Bruyere
- We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while… — Jean de la Bruyere
- Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan
- A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and… — John Calvin
- It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to… — Madeleine Albright