I've been ignored by prettier women than you,
but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence
so far, without spilling a drop.

Jeffrey McDaniel

Mots clés love women silence ignore

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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

Mots clés silence

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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Virginia Woolf

Mots clés solitude silence coffee-cups

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The ocean, the desert, and the jungle are the last strongholds and resorts of peace. ("Fear")

P.C. Wren

Mots clés peace silence

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Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

Richard Yates

Mots clés remaining-silent silence

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A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Mots clés fear parents silence child crying feelings discomfort protectiveness suppress

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It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Honoré de Balzac

Mots clés remaining-silent silence reticence psychology gossip

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I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent.

Sonia Rumzi

Mots clés writing silence tongue

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I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression.

Sharon E. Rainey

Mots clés silence depression desperation

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I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

Pat Conroy

Mots clés silence secrets greatest-lie

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