silence Quotes

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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“I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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“This grove that was now so peaceful must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“People can tell you to shut up, but they can't keep you from having an opinion.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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“They're all alike, you know: they hold their tongues for years, and you think you're safe, but when their opportunity comes they remember everything.”

― Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

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“Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants, willing to be dethroned.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

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