Silence Quotes

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Your silence will not protect you.

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

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