T. S. Eliot Quotes, Moving 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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I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

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If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

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The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

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Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

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To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

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Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

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Talkers are no good doers.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

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Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

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Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is 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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Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

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The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

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The best apology against false accusers is silence.

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There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the 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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