Quotes about silence
silence
No one nor anything can silence me. Dmitri Mendeleev
silence needs stories
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. Diane Setterfield
silence
Silence, nothing is better. Diane von Furstenberg
silence stopping looks
To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. Alan Watts
silence tragedy might
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music. Chogyam Trungpa
silence may speech
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. Edith Wharton
silence
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? Audre Lorde
silence maids tongue
Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. William Shakespeare
silence gone silent
Gone before To that unknown and silent shore. Charles Lamb
silence dumb apollo
The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.
silence adages code
Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger. Billy Joel
silence golden programming
It is tact that is golden, not silence. Samuel Butler
silence causes dangerous
In some causes silence is dangerous.
silence jurisprudence innocence
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
silence grace mercy
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope. Aberjhani
silence
Only silence perfects silence. A. R. Ammons
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 trying division
And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history. Adam Hochschild
silence
The rest, is silence.
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 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. Daniel Barenboim
silence stillness
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. Dag Hammarskjold
silence statement
Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.
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