Silence Quotes

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.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

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

Great souls suffer in silence.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Your silence gives consent.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

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

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

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.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.