Silence Quotes - page 63

"Marcus! I thought you must have been developing other interests, but I never expected to find you with your arms locked round a fish -" Then the lull sank to a silence. (Lindsey Davis)
The plumber plodded along in silence, like a man who has learned to be polite to lunatics through dealing with civil engineers. View quote
Lindsey Davis
"I'll sue you and the Sheriff's Department," he said, sounding more sulky than anything else. "Questioning me like a common criminal! And with an FBI agent standing over me in a threatening manner!" Since Bishop was across the room leaning rather negligently against the filing cabinet, that was such an obvious exaggeration that Miranda could only admire it for a moment in silence. View quote
Kay Hooper
... because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Pythagoras said, that it was requisite either to be silent, or to say something better than silence. View quote
Stobaeus
There is no Silence in the Earth -- so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World. View quote
Emily Dickinson
If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment. View quote
D. T. Suzuki
The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish. View quote
Libba Bray
I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell To which, in silence hushed, his very soul listened intensely for from within were heard Murmurings whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things, Of ebb and flow, and ever enduring power, And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless Agitation. View quote
William Wordsworth
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard; In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas; Among the farthest Hebrides. View quote
William Wordsworth
Our noisy years seem moments in the being of the eternal silence. (William Wordsworth)
The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. View quote
William Wordsworth
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness – a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. View quote
Jack London
He who invokes history is always secure. The dead will not rise to witness against him.You can accuse them of any deeds you like. Their reply will always be silence. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
Only if we assume that a poet constantly strives to liberate himself from borrowed styles in search for reality, is he dangerous. In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
And every bird I ever knew Back and forth in the summer flew; And breezes wafted over me The scent of every flower and tree: Till I forgot the pain and gloom And silence of my darkened room. View quote
Helen Hunt Jackson
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground. View quote
Annie Besant
There's no match for the silence of GOD. View quote
Nicole Krauss
At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence. View quote
Nicole Krauss
Silence brings us new names new feelings and new knowledge. Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith. View quote
Aberjhani
There were no longer words being spoken, but images being visualized. We achieved it above all by the dislocation of language. ... Beckett destroys language with silence. I do it with too much language, with characters talking at random, and by inventing words. (Eugène Ionesco)
I know the mechanism of the trap of morality and the drowsiness of certain words. I have lost faith in all those constructions of stone, ideas, ciphers. I quit. I no longer defend this broken tower. And, in silence, I await the event. View quote
Octavio Paz
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters
There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters
The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image- And this is the silence of wisdom. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters