Silence Quotes
Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts
Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.
...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.
Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.
I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.
When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet
Do you want to change the world?Then change yourself first.Do you want to change yourself?Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.
Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.
I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust, " Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.
the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.
It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.
Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching her son being put to death. They're wrong. There is one sound that is worse. There is silence.
Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.
Will ye come with me?” he whispered.And she answered without hesitation. “Yes, please.
It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.
Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".
I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.
Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin.Wanting a man who was sin itself.
What silence rules the ghostly hoursThat guard the close of human sleep!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)
Dream Song:As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.
No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.
Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.
Will ye be wantin’ this now, madam?”“Yes, please, ” she whispered. She wanted to engrave the sight of him thus, about to make love to her, in her mind.
There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it
It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.
A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much.
What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?
Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.
It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it.....The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.
If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves - I swear, I would have heard it, that's how silent it all was.
Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.
I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun.
Silence hung around the corners, draped like spider webs across all surfaces and hanging like smog in the air.
Kyoko sniffs, unable to speak. Sometimes saying nothing means most of all.
... isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much?
