silence Quotes

“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”

― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

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“His silence is more eloquent than words.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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“silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

― Plutarch, Moralia

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“I know not, but strained silence, so I deem, Is no less ominous than excessive grief.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

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“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“It may be thou art right: Unnatural silence signifies no good.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

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“It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words, to silence.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

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“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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