Quotes about silence
silence sound happenings
There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound. John Cage
silence sound integrating
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
silence
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on Samuel Beckett
silence shadow world
I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows. Novala Takemoto
silence use sound
You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time. Norton Juster
silence speech mouths
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. Emile M. Cioran
silence speech pay
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
silence speech quiet
Silence is safer than speech. Epictetus
silence few-words silence-is
Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
silence dialect might
So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Emily Carr
silence taste appetite
The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste. Emily Dickinson
silence world earth
There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.
silence appetite
I have an appetite for silence.
silence speech saying-nothing
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence. Simone de Beauvoir
silence cry indifferent
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries. Simone Weil
silence pleasure scoundrels
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence. Remy de Gourmont
silence purity
Out of purity and silence comes the word of power. Swami Vivekananda
silence trying problem
It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works. Robert Adams
silence return degrees
The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return. Ralph Waldo Emerson
silence speech silence-is
Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.
silence painting silent
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
silence heard eloquent
I have never heard a more eloquent silence. Laurie Halse Anderson
silence heard eloquent
He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
silence soul catholic
Silence does good to the soul. Therese of Lisieux
silence grace wilderness
Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace. Terry Tempest Williams
silence said knows
I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead! Terry Pratchett
silence spoken-word feels
There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words. Randeep Hooda
silence suffering path
The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?
silence shame discourse
Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
silence doe quiet
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? Lawrence Durrell
silence riding aurora
She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North. Philip Pullman
silence hazards useless
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras
silence stones firsts
If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.