Silence proverbs

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◆ Your silence will not protect you.

- Audre Lorde99

◆ Never miss a good chance to shut up.

- Will Rogers99

◆ We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

- Leonora Carrington99

◆ I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

- Mary Ann Shaffer99

◆ God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

- Woody Allen99

◆ Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

- Lawrence Durrell99

◆ When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

- Ansel Adams99

◆ My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

- Edith Sitwell99

◆ I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

- Henry Miller99

◆ He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

- Elbert Hubbard99

◆ You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

- Arthur Conan Doyle99

◆ Silence is a source of Great Strength.

- Lao Tzu99

◆ Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

- William S. Burroughs99

◆ Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.

- Norton Juster99