Quotes about silence
silence poet fingers
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. Joseph Joubert
silence world scandal
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence. Moliere
silence
Silence too can be indiscreet. Natalie Clifford Barney
silence sun
Sun, silence, and happiness. Nancy Mitford
silence musician canvas
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence. Keith Richards
silence paper musician
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
silence secret
He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers. Kim Edwards
silence doe tales
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does. Isak Dinesen
silence spirit divine
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine. Iris Murdoch
silence shame fame
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame. Igor Stravinsky
silence foolish possibility
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
silence listening males
Male silence is not the same as listening Gloria Steinem
silence answers indifference
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . . Gioachino Rossini
silence listening faces
He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself. J. K. Rowling
silence
Some things we must pass over in silence. Greg Iles
silence speech
More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.] George Herbert
silence tactics distrust
Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
silence risk policy
Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.
silence jubilation
Restrain yourself... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain. Homer
silence mind facts
In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning. Honore de Balzac
silence feelings wells
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
silence domestic-violence violence
Our silence is deafening and deadly. James Brown
silence stories just-listen
Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen. Jacqueline Woodson
silence spirit ineffable
Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence. Jacques Barzun
silence sticks speak
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better. J. R. R. Tolkien
silence
[Osho] silence and love say more than any words. Milarepa
silence important experience
In music, silence is more important than sound. Miles Davis
silence stories comfort
Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety. At any rate that afforded me some comfort. Milan Kundera
silence barriers insurmountable
What barrier is so insurmountable as silence? Marcel Proust
silence ears flutes
There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
silence delight made
The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true. Joseph Addison
silence sublime mind
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
silence world flow
I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows. Jose Marti