Silences Quotes

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.