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Quotes About Silence

Only the dead, can speak about their world.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I remembered screaming then, screaming until my voice stopped.
~ Unknown
And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies.
~ Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men
We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.
~ Marty Rubin
That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to.
~ Unknown
The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine's mouth. "Death, " hewhispered to her, "should be a quiet thing.
~ Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
However much one lacks piety, the atmosphere in a graveyard encourages quiet reflection.
~ Unknown
No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death.
~ Tom Stoppard
The cold is lonely person's way of feeling alone and death
~ PureDragonWolf
Death's brother, sleep.
~ Virgil, The Aeneid
I'd thought there'd be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.
~ Unknown
To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
~ Allen Ginsberg
All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.
~ Ralph Caplan
You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.
~ James Wan
I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
~ Francisco Costa
All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.
~ Bayazid Bastami
Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.
~ Robert Adams
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
~ Matsuo Basho
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.
~ Max Beckmann
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
~ Francis Quarles
Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.
~ Frederick Lenz