Quotes about silence
silence silent silence-is
Nothing is more useful than silence. Menander
silence strategy discourse
There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses. Michel Foucault
silence seeing
The price of seeing is silence. Marge Piercy
silence speech cold
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe. Theodore Parker
silence may accuracy
May my silences become more accurate. Theodore Roethke
silence noise world
The loudest noise in the world is silence. Thelonious Monk
silence ems answers
Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right. Terry Pratchett
silence language inertia
Silence is the language of inertia. Margaret Heffernan
silence mind criticism
The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination! Michael Faraday
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 entertainment industry
The entertainment industry is terrified of silence. Laura Linney
silence cones crave
I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
silence answers bullets
...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet. Lisa Kleypas
silence say-anything
Never say anything unless you have to. John Travolta
silence may opinion
if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. John Stuart Mill
silence assumption absolute-certainty
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
silence library brightness
The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. James Joyce
silence mind ears
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade. James Shirley
silence harder
There are silences harder to take back than words. James Richardson
silence sorrow best-food
Silence is sorrow's best food. James Russell Lowell
silence wish desperation
The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish. Libba Bray
silence definitions way
In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself Harvey Fierstein
silence feelings shame
My feelings for you shame me into silence. Henry Rollins
silence speech conversation
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. Henry David Thoreau
silence silence-is my-friends
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words. Enoch Powell
silence soul suffering
Great souls suffer in silence. Friedrich Schiller
silence soul endure
Great souls endure in silence.
silence three behaviour
When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know. Jon Ronson