Erica Jong Quotes

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

Erica Jong

• Silence
• Guilt
• Deeper
• Blunt

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• For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Moon
  • Interest
  • Deeper

• Silence is also conversation.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Silence
  • Conversation
  • Also

• What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Real
  • House

• I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Silence is my dignity.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Silence
  • Dignity

• We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Silence

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

  

  Walter Elliot
  • Silence
  • Desert
  • Crowd

• There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Done
  • Opinion
  • Silence

• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

  

  Wade Davis
  • People
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Silence

• While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the Smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a Kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Children
  • Light
  • Eyes

• What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

  

  Joan Miro
  • Music
  • Silence

• The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

  

  Akiva ben Joseph
  • Law
  • Wisdom
  • Silence

• Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

  

  Alafair Burke
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Done

• Mr. Bergman was a man of great working discipline. He forced everyone to concentrate when it was important. No disturbing noise during rehearsal. A code of silence.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Great
  • Important
  • Silence

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

  

  Brittany Daniel
  • Silence

• Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Wise
  • Silence

• And then there creptA little noiseless noise among the leaves,Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

  

  John Keats
  • Silence

• Be silent always when you doubt your Sense.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Doubt
  • Silence
  • Senses

• He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Foolish
  • Sassy

• To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Silence
  • Poet
  • Response

• I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

  

  Hunter Parrish
  • Done
  • Parent
  • Blind

• Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Silence
  • Guilt
  • Deeper