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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation.


Jean Arp

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JEAN ARP Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice a...
SAMUEL GOMPERS A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIPS BROOKS A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIP BROOKS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES He came back after a month and had blisters on his feet. He was walking six hours a day.
CHERYL MOORE Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!
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JOHN CALVIN What. Are. You. Doing. Here?” Day snapped each word this time.

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BARBARA KINGSOLVER ... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, an...
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SANDRA BROWN Quoting from Thomas Merton
Dialogues With Silence
The true contemplative is not one who pr...
STEPHEN COPE He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in h...
JAMES HOGG Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise...
PETER MINARD To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life,...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just afte...
H. L. MENCKEN Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just afte...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN To live thus -- to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day -- the Christian has learnt an...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspen...
OCTAVIO PAZ My stomach turned upside down as I watched his enemies stand by his coffin, the very people who ran ...
MARIJA MILOSEVIC Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.
UNKNOWN Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his...
CHINESE PROVERB God came down on His day of Resurrection and took His angel. Before he was mine, he was His.
JOANNE SANABRIA A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide t...
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard ...
SAMUEL ADAMS His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes...
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SYDNEY SMITH A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world...
KAHLIL GIBRAN He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere
RICHARD POWERS Law controls man from his day of inception to his day of death...
OLASOT Kenny rested his hand on my leg, patting it delicately. His thoughts staying just that, thoughts, as...
HOLLY HOOD Tony walked up to him, took his index finger and jammed it into Jim's chest really hard. He came bac...
CHARLIE CREAMER What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his he...
MARK TWAIN The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
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DON WILLIAMS JR. A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but o...
BARUCH SPINOZA Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that f...
MOTHER ANGELICA Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his large...
JOHN GREEN A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence ...
ANUJ SOMANY This wavering paradox is a pillar of the outlaw stance. A man who has blown all his options can't af...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a...
DANTE ALIGHIERI I anticipate him being healthy. His arm is feeling much improved. Evan Moore has taken a negative an...
WALT HARRIS The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the in...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for th...
TERRY PRATCHETT On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
ALFRED DE VIGNY The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
HILAIRE BELLOC Commander Waddle exercised his judgment, and he did his level best. He may have fallen short on that...
CHARLES GITTINS Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a t...
S.M. STIRLING Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to r...
G. K. CHESTERTON A teacher of meditation once told the story of a man who wanted nothing to do with the stress of lif...
ELAINE N. ARON Baby,” Day said softly, his throat still sore from being choked.

God turned around slow...
A.E. VIA From his silence a man's consent is inferred.
DECIMUS LABERIUS People will rather appreciate a man who wears one suit out of the several he has got and refuse to v...
SUNDAY ADELAJA For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, j...
C.S. LEWIS The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the pres...
NICHOLAS SPARKS And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after...
T. S. ELIOT Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his ow...
LUDWIG VON MISES A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—unt...
MITCH ALBOM My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding so...
EZEKIEL EMANUEL What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ...
CATHERINE CROWE Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care th...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and...
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SAINT BASIL If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the ...
CONFUCIUS In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
MEISTER ECKHART If I release you, you won't scream? I'd rather not continue the conversation like this."
She sh...
JAIME RUSH On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his ...
HELEN HUNT JACKSON (HELEN HUNT) His strengths, I think, begin with his independence. He's independent of everything and of everybody...
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AESOP A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels lik...
RAJ KAPOOR Turn your back on the love you have for someone who has turned his back on you.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN It’s like watching a James Bond movie. Morpheus—in a black trench-coat-style blazer that hangs t...
A.G. HOWARD He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
BALTASAR GRACIAN He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And hi...
BEN FOLDS Eating a huge home cooked Christmas dinner was his personal favorite. Evan would look around after e...
DAVID RANGEL Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most e...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He will be speaking on his experience during the Rwanda massacres and his experience coming back to ...
ZACHARY JEREMIAH After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was eith...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was eith...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse o...
ROBERT CAPA Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his...
MARIE LU God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his h...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow...
BERAN WOLFE A man,who realizes the potential of his mind by means of introspection and contemplation, he does no...
SAM VEDA He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
SYDNEY SMITH He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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JEAN COCTEAU One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
JEAN ANOUILH If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characteriz...
JEAN PIAGET The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
JEAN COCTEAU Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just para...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
JEAN ROSTAND Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth an...
JEAN COCTEAU The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
JEAN ANOUILH A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit th...
JEAN LUSH I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one stri...
JEAN RHYS Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
JEAN PAUL What you get free costs too much.
JEAN ANOUILH