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  • Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
  • The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication." -- Frances Densmore
  • Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. -- Aime Cesaire
  • The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her. -- Michael Ende
  • The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. -- Michel De Certeau
  • Great souls suffer in silence. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • Great souls endure in silence. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • Silence is a great peacemaker. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Silence is a source of great strength. -- Lao Tzu
  • Silence is a source of great strenght. -- Laozi
  • Silence is a great source of strength. -- John Heider
  • Speech is great, but silence is greater. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Silence is one great art of conversation. -- William Hazlitt
  • To many mortals silence great gain brings. -- Aeschylus
  • Souls of prayer are souls of great silence -- Mother Teresa
  • Only silence is great; all else is weakness. -- Alfred de Vigny
  • Silence is a place of great power and healing. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
  • Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die -- Katja Michael
  • Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art -- Dominique de Menil
  • One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God. -- Calvin Miller
  • The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. -- Jack London
  • It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. -- Seneca the Elder
  • Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
  • Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. -- Aldous Huxley
  • When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; -- Edward Lear
  • Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening, -- Bernie Krause
  • People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues. -- Fionnula Flanagan
  • If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence. -- Shannon L. Alder
  • So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence. -- Muriel Spark
  • It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
  • There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts. -- Adyashanti
  • Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns. -- Lionel Johnson
  • Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence. -- Walt Whitman
  • Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie. -- Sam Mendes
  • With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb! -- John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Take some time off to go within, in silence. With that, your charm becomes eternal, your love becomes unconditional & great strength arises. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
  • loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity. -- Miley Cyrus
  • Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. -- Aldous Huxley
  • Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say. -- William Shenstone
  • Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence. -- Charlie Chaplin
  • There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again. -- Lauren DeStefano
  • This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language. -- Rumi
  • Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind. -- Joseph Addison
  • Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands. -- H. L. Mencken
  • Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence. -- Max von Sydow
  • I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven. -- Emily Watson
  • Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die. -- Alfred de Vigny
  • That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it -- Hannah More
  • Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence. -- J.R. Ward
  • My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence. -- Antonio Machado
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