Silence Quotes - page 6

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride. (Arthur Machen)
I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. View quote
Chaim Potok
Macaulay has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. View quote
Sydney Smith
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much. View quote
William Shakespeare
The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Silence is the mother of truth. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never. View quote
Franz Kafka
Silence is a source of great strength. View quote
Laozi
To silence criticism is to silence freedom. View quote
Sidney Hook
The silence was always the greates temptation. View quote
Markus Zusak
Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me. (Marlee Matlin)
It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence. View quote
Tom Perrotta
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
Silence is a protective coating over pain. View quote
E. Lockhart
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I have never heard a more eloquent silence. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Only silence perfects silence. View quote
A. R. Ammons
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie. View quote
Sam Mendes
Silence is refreshment for the soul. View quote
Wynonna Judd
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. (Zoltan Kodaly)
I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind - my wayward heart creates its own misery - Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child - long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
A fool is known by his Speech; and a wise man by Silence. View quote
Pythagoras
I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows. View quote
José Martí
As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy - a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence. View quote
Charles Krauthammer