Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
Quotes to Explore
-
Silence is also conversation.
-
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.
-
I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
-
Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
-
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
-
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
-
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
-
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!
-
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
-
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.
-
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
-
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.
-
What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.
-
To restore silence is the role of objects.
-
All I know is the dark, the night underground. And that’s all there really is. That’s all there is to know, in the end. The silence, and the dark. You know everything, wizard. But I know one thing - the one true thing!
-
Silence brings us new namesnew feelings and new knowledge.Dreams dress us carefullyin the colors of power and faith.
-
Silence is a fence around wisdom.
-
Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.
-
She certainly gave me what I've been losing. Youth's intensity, its craving, the soul-priapism, huge lust and fierce to her, clamour for her to realize with me that mightiest marriage-dream, that Sacrament of Satan that may be consummated only beneath Night's dome, in utmost silence, because its Elements are not symbols of things, but They themselves.
-
Be silent always when you doubt your Sense.
-
My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.
-
Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.
-
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
