Silence Quotes - page 3

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. (Alice Walker)
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Colette
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Marianne Moore
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F. H. Bradley
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen
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.
Samuel Beckett
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller
Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
Michel de Montaigne
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. (Harvey Fierstein)
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
George Steiner
Your silence will not protect you.
Audre Lorde
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
William Dean Howells
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
Archibald MacLeish
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like Silence, listening To silence.
Thomas Hood
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr.
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along. But that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.
Ben Carson
I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run. (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan)
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.
Buster Keaton
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri