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silence
silence - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
Annie Dillard
Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.
Cormac McCarthy
The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.
Alan Paton
In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, all is quiet.In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
D.H. Lawrence
From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insentience of the outer world. She liked the inwardness of the remnant of forest, the unspeaking reticence of the old trees. They seemed a very power of silence, and yet a vital presence. They, too, were waiting: obstinately, stoically waiting, and giving off a potency of silence.
Sylvia Plath
Stars open among the lilies.Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?This is the silence of astounded souls.
George Eliot
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.
William Faulkner
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
Jodi Picoult
We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.
Jodi Picoult
Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.
Jodi Picoult
Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.
Kim Edwards
He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.
Wisława Szymborska
When I pronounce the word Future,the first syllable already belongs to the past.When I pronounce the word Silence,I destroy it.
Jhumpa Lahiri
In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.
Thomas Pynchon
The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.
Margaret Atwood
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...
Azar Nafisi
There are so many different forms of silence: the silence that tyrannical states force on their citizens, stealing their memories, rewriting their histories, and imposing on them a state-sanctioned identity. Or the silence of witnesses who choose to ignore or not speak the truth, and of victims who at times become complicit in the crimes committed against them. Then there are the silences we indulge in about ourselves, our personal mythologies, the stories we impose upon our real lives.
Azar Nafisi
I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.
Sebastian Faulks
It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.
Jacqueline Winspear
When you are sitting in silence, you open the door to a deeper wisdom--the knowing of the ages. When you are walking, with the path to that wisdom already carved anew by your daily practice, you find that an idea, a thought, a notion, comes to you, and you have the solution to a problem that seemed insoluble.
Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.
Mitch Albom
Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?
Mitch Albom
Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.
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by Jean Sasson
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