#silence

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on. ↗

— Robert Stone

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In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America? ↗

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

#because #current #defend #difficult #environment

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. ↗

— Faith Baldwin

#facile #greater #lack #silence #sometimes

I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence that preceded a most wonderful Silence. ↗

— George Saunders

#nature #silence #beauty

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#after #comes #expressing #inexpressible #nearest

The most boring thing in the world? Silence. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#boring thing #most #silence #thing #world

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#silence #speech #variously

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence. ↗