silence Quotes

“To restore silence is the role of objects.”

― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

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“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

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“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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“Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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“Most people don’t know how to appreciate silence. They can’t help talking.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

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“In the meantime let us try and converse calmly, since we are incapable of keeping silent.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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“The world around me is dissolving, leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away… I am thinking that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“The red wine first must rise in their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em talk us to silence.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

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“Let us be silent, — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

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“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

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