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Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
— Marianne Wiggins
Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.
— Eduardo Galeano
Profound music leads us beyond language ... to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
— Cornel West
All around them people were speaking a language Brown didn't understand; it was like silence with sharp edges in it.
— Helen Oyeyemi
She had to possess the courage to enter, through language, states which most people deny or veil with silence.
— Adrienne Rich
The only language the ignorant comprehend is "silence.
— Bahman Solati
Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.
— Terry Tempest Williams
When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
The language of the universe comes not from the voice but from the primordial silence. You can understand it by enhancing your feelings.
— Debasish Mridha
Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.
— Susanna Clarke
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
— Eduardo Galeano
Silence is the language of inertia.
— Margaret Heffernan
Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all!
— Tina Sequeira
They say the silence is the language of God, but so is music. This is why we dance, we become loud in our silence.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic
It is hard to say anything as true as saying nothing.
— Marty Rubin
Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.
— Eugene H. Peterson
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
— Ramana Maharshi
The language of nature is silence.
— Bryant McGill
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
And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language
— Hanif Kureishi
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
— Elie Wiesel
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
— George Steiner
I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.
— Michel Foucault
Too many womenin too many countries
speak the same language,
of silence ... — Hillary Rodham Clinton
When you are able to understand the language of silence, you will be able to see the beauty of the invisible.
— Debasish Mridha
If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Silence is the only language god speaks.
— Charles Simic
Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
— Ramana Maharshi
The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.
— Malidoma Patrice Some
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
— Ben Kingsley
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Silence is the language of nature and beauty where perception and feelings are the only reality.
— Debasish Mridha
Silence is God's first language.
— John Of The Cross
Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.
— Richard Jackson
If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history.
— James P. Carse
Super 8 film is the language of silence.
— Rebecca McNutt
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
— Anthony Doerr
As was his language so was his life.
— Seneca The Younger
Silence is no weakness of language.It is, on the contrary, its strength.
It is the weakness of words not to know this. — Edmond Jabes
If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
— Suzanne Vega
God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
— Thomas Keating
In the world I amAlways a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence — Bei Dao
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Who never tried to alter my language, but instead learned to translate the meaning behind my silence.
— Claire Contreras
Poetry is the place where language in its silence is most beautifully articulated. Poetry is the language of silence.
— John O'Donohue
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
— Simon Van Booy
The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
— Gertrud Von Le Fort
It is hard to see anything as true as saying nothing.
— Marty Rubin
Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation.
— Christian Wiman
When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.
— Akshay Vasu
The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.
— Stephen D. Krashen
The language of understanding is not the words, but the silence. The language of love is not the promise, but the feelings.
— Debasish Mridha
Silence is a language not all people understand.
— Abdel Halim Boudekhana
Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.
— Jay Griffiths
To understand the language of love and peace, listen to the silence.
— Debasish Mridha