Quotes about silence
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 sound corny
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here. Daniel Barenboim
silence ends notes
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
silence stillness
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. Dag Hammarskjold
silence would-be appreciated
A period of silence on your part would be appreciated. Clement Attlee
silence deeds should
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. Dante Alighieri
silence listening sound
Listen to the sound of silence. Paul Simon
silence doorways
External silence can be the doorway to inner silence. Ram Dass
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 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 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 gains mortals
To many mortals silence great gain brings. Aeschylus
silence speech misery
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
silence world violence
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. Adrienne Rich
silence overcoming break
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
silence grace gone
What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. William Shakespeare
silence expansion concentration
Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable. Jane Hirshfield
silence different kind
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings. Charlotte Bronte
silence special duets
Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way. Charlie Haden
silence heard
In the silence, hear what can't be heard. Ben Lee
silence grace female
Your highest female grace is silence. Ben Jonson
silence desert gleam
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
silence rare-occasion gym
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence. Bebe Neuwirth
silence ends
In the end, the only thing between us was silence. Becca Fitzpatrick