Silence Quotes

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

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 wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Silence is best.

Speech is the small change of silence.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Only silence perfects silence.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

I love silence.

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

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.