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Quotes About Silence

A constant flow of news invades existence today, destroying the silence and peace of humble lives, without abolishing their tedium.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Only those who never moved a finger to acquire them should talk about money and power.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
A cultivated soul is one where the din of the living does not drown out the music of the dead.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Wie eine Tradition aufrecht erhalten? Indem man nicht von ihr spricht.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Modern man deafens himself with music in order not to hear himself.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Spirituality dawns when the intellect is silenced by loving devotion and reverential humility. KIRPAL SINGH
~ Unknown
No news is good news. No journalists is even better.
~ Nicolas Bentley
Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Here I am, motionless in the room, watching what is going on in the street. Nothing. Only reality.
~ Unknown
Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.
~ Nicole Krauss
Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Only the wind shatters the silence. I have been here before choking in solitude.
~ Nikki Grimes
Shut the f@@k up
~ Unknown
En sus ojos se leía a menudo el ardiente deseo de tomar parte en alguna conversación interesante o de juntarse a otro grupo, pero se retenía al pensar que aquello podía parecer excesivo por su parte o demasiado familiar, y que con ello rebajaría su dignidad. Y por eso permanecía eternamente solo, en la misma actitud silenciosa, emitiendo de cuando en cuando un sonido monótono, con lo cual llegó a pasar por un hombre de lo más aburrido.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Be quiet, Afanasii Ivanovich," said Pulcheria Ivanovna: "you just like to talk, and that's all. A dog is not clean; a dog soils things, and breaks everything: but the cat is a peaceable beast; she does no harm to any one.
~ Nikolai Gogol
SILENCE you miserable cretins!
~ Nikolas Schreck
End of music is the end of the entire universe.
~ Unknown
The age of disappearing women. It had been going on forever. Thousands of us vanished, with not a single police officer searching. Not a word from the newspapers. Only our long absences and quiet returns. If we ever returned at all.
~ Unknown
word about her eavesdropping, so long as
~ Unknown
My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.
~ Unknown
There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.
~ Unknown
S?owa tworz? ?wiaty. Rzeczywisto?? jest cisz?.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
To the tongue which bringeth thee words without reason, the answer that best beseemeth thee is?silence.
~ Nizami