Silence Quotes

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Silence is more musical than any song.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Listen to the sound of silence.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

Silence is an ornament for women.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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!

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.