Quotes about silence
silence stones helping
Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them! Anne Michaels
silence ears world
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. Albert Camus
silence calamity plague
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
silence doe silent
As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
silence listening done
I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence 'til something clicks and I feel a right answer. Conrad Hilton
silence might contemplation
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. Clarence Darrow
silence important unsaid
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid. Daniel Day-Lewis
silence doubt silent
Be silent always when you doubt your sense. Alexander Pope
silence bases ought
Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms. Dorothy Richardson
silence deception degrees
There's a degree of deception in silence. Don Lemon
silence noise ghastly
There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence. Douglas Adams
silence layers
All those layers of silence upon silence. Donna Tartt
silence hearing administration
It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence. Cynthia McKinney
silence yes-and-no answers
When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence. Dan Brown
silence needs embarrassment
I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family. Cybill Shepherd
silence sheer perversity
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence. Dave Hickey
silence feelings situation
I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation. Dave Matthews
silence trying ends
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. David Leavitt
silence peaceful darkness
The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses. David Levithan
silence together noise
They don’t have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.
silence soul ruins
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul. Alphonsus Liguori
silence democratic treason
In a democratic society, the only treason is silence. Anna Quindlen
silence remember silent
Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent. Alfred Brendel
silence weakness silence-is
Only silence is great; all else is weakness. Alfred de Vigny
silence drug speak
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. Anatole France
silence literature fool
Silence is the wit of fools.
silence vehement mines
I love your silences, they are like mine. Anais Nin
silence
I am interested in silences Anne Enright
silence unfolding wounded
Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once. Annie Proulx
silence conversation faculty
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. Anne Bronte
silence pockets language
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. Anthony Doerr
silence speak dear
When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence. Anthony de Mello
silence mind desire
Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said mind, take that step into silence. If you love me, said body, turn and exist. Anne Stevenson