Virginia Woolf Quotes, Art Quotes, Silence Quotes

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wise Quotes , Silence Quotes

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Moving Quotes , Silence Quotes

When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

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Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Father Quotes , Silence Quotes

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

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The way to become boring is to say everything.

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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

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Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

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The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

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If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

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It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Real Quotes , Silence Quotes