Silence Quotes

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

Silence is the wit of fools.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

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.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

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.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.