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When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.
There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.
The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.
Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.
Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.
The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?
Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
I move in silence. I don't like puttin' too much of me out there to be dissected, analyzed.
The Left wants to silence conservative Christians in the media and in the political square.
Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
Silence not only lets you listen but to see things with much more clarity than you ever can.
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]
As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.
I like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.
There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.
Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.
This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.
Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.
Silence can be a very powerful tool. Sometimes it's more powerful to leave you with nothing.
Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.
...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.
You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.
Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.
A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.
Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.