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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls
Quote by -Mother Teresa
“The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.”
Quote by -William James
“After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.”
Quote by -Isabel Allende
“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”
Quote by -Isabel Allende
For everything there is a season, and a time for very purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to break down, and a time to build up, a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.
Quote by -King Solomon
The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.
Quote by -Mahatama Gandhi
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Quote by -Mahatama Gandhi
"You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"My Dear Sir: Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest? Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish; and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity o"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence."
Quote by -Chaim Potok
"I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own."
Quote by -Chaim Potok
"I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film."
Quote by -Catherine Deneuve
"And why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was exactly as they wanted him to be--when most likely it was all a very queer mistake?... In the battling tumult of voices he alone was silent."
Quote by -Carson McCullers
"You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
Quote by -Zora Neale Hurston
When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.
Quote by -Yukio Mishima
You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
Quote by -Wendell Berry
Otherwise, he'd have found the ruin empty, and then, somehow, very quietly and almost naturally, he would have died.
Quote by -William Gibson
The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
Quote by -Thomas Harris
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.
Quote by -Thomas Merton
...because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound.
Quote by -Salman Rushdie