Silence Quotes

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

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

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.