Quotes about silence
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 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 enemy progress
If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress. Jeff Buckley
silence consequence
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too. Jean-Paul Sartre
silence silent pleasure
All the great pleasures of life are silent. Georges Clemenceau
silence church dams
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes. Georges Bataille
silence together generations
There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side. Jean Chretien
silence deception noise
There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence Jacqueline Carey
silence intellectual important
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. Christopher Lasch
silence earth noise
It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth. Gary Busey
silence speak ifs
If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak. Chris Rose
silence silent poisonous
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. Friedrich Nietzsche
silence needs speak
It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me. Jeanette Winterson
silence
Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.
silence becoming becoming-you
In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself. Jewel
silence needs said
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
silence world language
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. George Steiner
silence honor badges
Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again. George R. R. Martin
silence secret wavelength
Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working. Jean Cocteau
silence acting crafts
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. Federico Fellini
silence captured
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me. Ezra Pound
silence tongue truest
The stillest tongue can be the truest friend. Euripides
silence house quiet
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
silence action higher
What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence. Francis of Assisi
silence noble overcoming
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. Francis Beaumont
silence violence
Silence creates it's own violence. Jeff Vandermeer
silence contentment desire
I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence. Jhonen Vasquez
silence ears desert
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. Graham Greene
silence saying-nothing
You can't improve on saying nothing. Golda Meir
silence threat difficult
Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth. Harriet Lerner
silence independence opinion
there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince. Harriet Beecher Stowe