Silence Quotes

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.

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.

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 as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

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.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

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

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Never be bullied into silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.