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Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot )

Great souls endure in silence. (Quote by - Friedrich Schiller)

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. (Quote by - Dorothy Dix)

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here. (Quote by - Daniel Barenboim)

Silence is the true friend that never betrays. (Quote by - Confucius)

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play. (Quote by - Alice Cooper)

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

Silence is a friend who will never betray. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled. (Quote by - Charles Delint)

There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence. (Quote by - Nicholas Udall)

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? (Quote by - Federico Fellini)

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)

Silence is argument carried on by other means. (Quote by - Che Guevara)

Silence Of The Lambs is definitely very frightening. (Quote by - Jonathan Jackson)

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall. (Quote by - Jean Stafford)

It is only reason that teaches silence. The heart teaches us to speak. (Quote by - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter)

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. (Quote by - John Morley)

The pause that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

When they hold their tongues they cry out. (Quote by - Cicero)

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. (Quote by - Audre Lorde)

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