Quotes About Silence
Beloved, god-touched, great-souled… a saint, even? The true sort, who moved through the world as silently as fishes, unnoticed by carnal eyes that focused only on outward domination and display. Never on a small woman in a small town, being kind. Soul by soul. And
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
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The woman is so full of silences, they spill over.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
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For all his silences, the man was about as self-effacing as a neutron star; light itself seemed to bend around him.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
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She was not the first woman he'd met who endured dire pain in disturbing silence
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
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Across the distance between them, Bree's gaze met Mikkel's, and she did not blink.
~ Lois Walfrid Johnson
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Existem três Silêncios: o primeiro, de palavra; O segundo, de desejo; o terceiro, de pensamento.
~ Longfellow
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The song and the silence in the heart, That in part are prophecies, and in part Are longings wild and vain
~ Longfellow
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There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye. And the words of that fatal song Come over me like a chill: A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
~ Longfellow Henry Wadsworth
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Megan wanted to groan. You guys are smothering me. Braden leaned against the wall, watching it all, never speaking. Sexy and silent. Okay, so he had a few things going for him. Get used to it, Her father's voice brooked no refusal. Until I leave this world, you are still my daughter and still under my protection. Protect Lance. She waved her hand at her smirking cousin. He's in more danger than I am if he keeps pissing me off. Share the love, Dad.
~ Lora Leigh
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I'm calling in a favor, she stated. Silence filled the line. She could almost feel the intractable Breed mulling over possibilities and wondering which favor she would call. You have a surplus, he finally sighed. Will it get me killed? She almost grinned at that. She couldn't imagine Mordecai contemplating death, let alone worrying if it would affect him. I guess anything is possible, she mused. You backing out? He grunted at that. Life's too long sometimes anyway.
~ Lora Leigh
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Maybe it's hungry," she suggested, her voice low but definitely goading now. "Do you keep kitty kibble around?" Silence
~ Lora Leigh
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Into that charm and the gloom and the deep silence Oth moved gravely; and a solemness came on his face as he entered the wood; for to go on quiet feet through the wood was the work of his life, and he came to it as men come to their heart's desire.
~ Lord Dunsany
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All sound arises out of Silence and dissolves into Silence. All thought arises out of Silence and dissolves into Silence. The universe arises out of Silence and dissolves into Silence. Suffering arises out of Silence and dissolves into Silence. The unbounded spaciousness of Silence, filled with the clear light of Awareness, dissolves the roots of pain and sorrow. Take refuge in Silence and know unshakable joy
~ Lord Dunsany
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And the dawn grew strangely and slowly over those unwonted lands, pouring upon them the colours that day after day our daffodils, and day after day our wild roses, through all the weeks of their season, drink deep with voluptuous assemblies in utterly silent riot.
~ Lord Dunsany
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Then on the River I saw the dream-built ship of the god Yoharneth-Lehai, whose great prow lifted grey into the air above the River of Silence. Her timbers were olden dreams dreamed long ago, and poets' fancies made her tall, straight masts, and her rigging was wrought out of the people's hopes. Upon her deck were rowers with dream-made oars, and the rowers were the people of men's fancies, and princes of old story and people who had died, and people who had never been.
~ Lord Dunsany
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that a pink flamingo yard ornament deserved demolishing by any available means. A comment left unsaid, of course. Thea's face had paled to
~ Lorena McCourtney
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I said nothing. If she wasn't careful, everyone would rush out of her life, life out of a burning building.
~ Lorrie Moore
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I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me.
~ Lorrie Moore
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Sarah'n?n gülmek yerine, Komik, ya da gülümsemek yerine, İlginç, ya da Aptal z?rva geri zekâl?n?n tekisin, demek yerine, Åžey, san?r?m bu ondan biraz daha karma??k, diyen kad?nlardan olmas?ndan korktum. Öyle insanlar?n yan?nda ne yapaca??m? hiç bilemezdim, özellikle de siz konuÅŸtuktan sonra gizemli bir ÅŸekilde Anl?yorum, diyenlerin. Genellikle sadece susard?m.
~ Lorrie Moore
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Sometimes there was a simultaneous quiet upstairs and down, like a blanket of snow, as if at that moment no one anywhere in the galaxy knew what to say.
~ Lorrie Moore
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Oh, she said. I wasn't going to ask, but then you never said anything about it, so I thought I'd ask. How about you? Not me, said Odette. She had a poem about marriage. It began, Marriage is the death you want to die, and in front of audiences she never read it with much conviction. Usually she swung her foot back and forth through the whole thing.
~ Lorrie Moore
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Be mindful of your own inner pressure to fill in silences and come up with rapid solutions. Experiment with patience. I've found that if I am patient, clients will often arrive at the very same conclusions I wanted to give them minutes before.
~ Louis Cozolino
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The couple sat side by side on cushions on the floor, quietly eating breakfast from the low table. They munched in happy and enjoyable silence, of the kind that grows like a vine through the long years of a good marriage, so that when everything that needs to be said has already been pronounced, it is mutually understood that there is an intimate silence that has its own loquacity.
~ Louis de Bernieres
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Under a quiet sky the planet turned, and horses ate, and men slept, and death waited for morning. —
~ Louis L'Amour
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