Quotes about silence
silence
Some things we must pass over in silence. Greg Iles
silence speech
More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.] George Herbert
silence needs done
I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world. Virginia Woolf
silence streets
What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace. William Saroyan
silence special minutes
Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence. Uma Thurman
silence tongue maidens
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion. Walter Scott
silence important experience
In music, silence is more important than sound. Miles Davis
silence stories comfort
Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety. At any rate that afforded me some comfort. Milan Kundera
silence barriers insurmountable
What barrier is so insurmountable as silence? Marcel Proust
silence ears flutes
There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
silence delight made
The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true. Joseph Addison
silence sublime mind
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
silence world flow
I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows. Jose Marti
silence sound theater
The greatest sound in the theater is silence. Kevin Spacey
silence amir shutting-down
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir Khaled Hosseini
silence together whispering
Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison? Khalil Gibran
silence house negligence
The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.
silence envious noisy
The silence of the envious is too noisy.
silence talkative
I learnt silence from the talkative
silence definitions way
In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself Harvey Fierstein
silence feelings shame
My feelings for you shame me into silence. Henry Rollins
silence speech conversation
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. Henry David Thoreau
silence library brightness
The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. James Joyce
silence mind ears
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade. James Shirley
silence harder
There are silences harder to take back than words. James Richardson
silence sorrow best-food
Silence is sorrow's best food. James Russell Lowell
silence wish desperation
The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish. Libba Bray
silence soul suffering
Great souls suffer in silence. Friedrich Schiller
silence soul endure
Great souls endure in silence.
silence three behaviour
When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know. Jon Ronson
silence logic speak
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. Ludwig Wittgenstein
silence safe silent
Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you. John Boyle O'Reilly
silence silence-is my-friends
If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words. Enoch Powell