Silence Quotes
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.
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I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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.
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In my mind, depression is, like all non-communicable diseases, a physiologically expressed condition which is profoundly influenced by our social and cultural environments. Depression is a global crisis not only because it is common and universal, but because the vast majority of affected people suffer in silence or receive inappropriate care.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I am rather inclined to silence.
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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.
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I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
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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!
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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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.
