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We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.
Jodi Picoult
Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation.
Isaac Newton
Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues
Benjamin Franklin
After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason
Albert Camus
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. 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 post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.
Oscar Wilde
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.
Stephen King
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
There are times when silence has the loudest voice.
Leroy Brownlow
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates of Chalcedon
We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
Stephen Hawking
The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.
Arabic Proverb
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
Kahlil Gibran
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
Sir Winston Churchill
Sometimes silence can be the strongest and most compassionate answer.
Steve Maraboli
