Silence Quotes

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

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

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.