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Tag Name "Silence" (2322)

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I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen.
Louise Glück
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Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.
Veronica Roth
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One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.
Thomas Keating
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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
Victor Hugo
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If you dont have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.
Jeff Rich
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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
Victor Hugo
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It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.
Lauren DeStefano
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The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
Angelina Grimke
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I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the lack of stimulation allows us to hear and experience a deeper river that's constant, still, vibrant, and real. And the process of deep listening with attention and intention catalyzes and mobilizes exactly what's needed at that time.
Angeles Arrien
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In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'
Angeles Arrien
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I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
Viggo Mortensen
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand.
Pablo Neruda
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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
Pierre Corneille
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If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz
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Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.
Jack Kerouac
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I have met people that said when their friend was dying, they made them promise that their funeral would be a party without people sitting in silence and in sadness. They want to celebrate their life and the life they lived and I try to adhere to that more.
Andrew W.K.
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I want to write a novel about Silence, he said “the things people don’t say.
Virginia Woolf
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
Simone Weil
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
Virginia Woolf
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You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.
Andrew Schneider
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Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
Virginia Woolf
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