Silence Quotes

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

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

Silence is the mother of truth.

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.

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.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

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

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Silence is safer than speech.

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence.

Silence is the wit of fools.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's something about that song that's really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up.

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.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

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

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

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

Some things we must pass over in silence.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

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

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Your silence will not protect you.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

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.

Silence is also conversation.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

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

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

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.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

Your silence gives consent.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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

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

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.

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

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I moved to L.A. and auditioned and did very well there. My first gig was playing a skinhead in John Singleton's 'Higher Learning', and I played Glenn Close's son in a TV movie called 'Serving In Silence.'

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

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.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.