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Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him.
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.
It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.
The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.
There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.
The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.
If we are to know the Lord, we must go to Him. Listen to Him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach Him in the Sacraments.
Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart.
Millions of children all over the world live in silence and face communication barriers - and, particularly, access to education.
When I get by the ocean, that's the only moment that I get that silence and that connection, not with the ocean, but with myself.
The whole Orion zeitgeist, of treating filmmakers as partners, to me it's inseparable from the success of 'Silence of the Lambs'.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.
I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
I have always said that the debate about who should play in goal is part of the game, but I never play in order to silence anyone.
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.
People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.
He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.
Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too.
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.
There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.
I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.
The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised, it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.
Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.
You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
When I got to know that I will be doing 'Dilwale,' I was numb. I called my mother and told her, and there was a two-minute silence.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.
You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.
My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.
Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.
Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.
Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
Most American adults know what a drag queen is, but as they're portrayed in films like 'Dressed to Kill' and 'Silence of the Lambs.'