Silence Quotes

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in 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.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

Silence is safer than speech.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

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

Silence is the wit of fools.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.