“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.” ― Adrienne RichĦ. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.” ― William S. “The true genius shudders at incompleteness - imperfection - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything that should be said.” ― Edgar Allan Poe, MarginaliaĤ. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.” ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancerģ. “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” ― Leonardo da VinciĢ. – Marcus Tullius Cicero When Silence Is The Only Answerġ. Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. “The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside.” ― Naval Ravikantġ0. “At times, silence can be a welcoming and hospitable partner when we can let loose, and the flow of time is sending a comforting wave of sound vibrations gently opening the skyline. “A nervous silence loosens tongues” ― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s ChosenĨ. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.” ― David Levithan, Boy Meets Boyħ. This language gives us time to think and move. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. “We switch to another language– not our invented language or the language we’ve learned from our lives. “If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.” ― Federico FelliniĦ. “God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.” ― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirationsĥ. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.” ― Virginia Woolf, The WavesĤ. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. “How much better is silence the coffee cup, the table. This is the great paradox.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebookģ. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. “We sit silently and watch the world around us. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.” ― Chaim Potok, The ChosenĢ. “I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. “Silence is so freaking loud” ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen For The Times When It Is Better To Stay Silentġ. “Silence is a source of Great Strength.” ― Lao Tzuġ0. “Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?” ― Lawrence Durrell, Justineĩ. “When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.” ― Yevgeny YevtushenkoĨ. Now if only man would shut up.” ― Woody Allenħ. “Never miss a good chance to shut up.” ― Will RogersĦ. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be silent with.” ― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie SocietyĤ.“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.” ― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Suchĥ. “I don’t want to be married just to be married. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ― Rumiģ. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. Silence is the real crime against humanity.” ― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against HopeĢ.
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