Silence Quotes - page 3

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people. (Marcel Marceau)
Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. View quote
Marcel Marceau
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. View quote
John Cage
Decency is Indecency's conspiracy of silence. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. View quote
Emil Cioran
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. View quote
William Penn
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. View quote
Alice Walker
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. View quote
Colette
Lying is done with words and also with silence. View quote
Adrienne Rich
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. View quote
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. View quote
F. H. Bradley
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. View quote
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. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. View quote
Helen Keller
Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
George Steiner
Your silence will not protect you. View quote
Audre Lorde
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. View quote
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. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like Silence, listening To silence. View quote
Thomas Hood
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. View quote
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. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
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