Silence Quotes

there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

I am interested in silences

When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

Silence allows me to hear what's really going on in my head.

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication."

The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

Silence never makes any blunders.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Powerlessness and silence go together.

The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.