Top Silence Quotes
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
Bernadette Devlin
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr. 
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Thomas Carlyle
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Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
James Broughton
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Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
George Steiner
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
Lech Walesa
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln
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Popular Silence Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldHenry David ThoreauGeorge Bernard ShawMason CooleyBenjamin FranklinSamuel JohnsonMarcus Tullius CiceroThomas JeffersonSamuel ButlerBenjamin DisraeliThomas Carlyle Plato SophoclesAbraham LincolnFrancis Bacon
Blaise PascalGeorge EliotAlbert CamusMartin Luther King, Jr.Aldous HuxleyRobert Louis StevensonKahlil GibranEmile M. Cioran AeschylusElbert HubbardCharles Caleb ColtonLao TzuJosh BillingsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Confucius
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