Silence Quotes

• 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.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Real
  • Bad

• I have to make sure that I don't silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of 'What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?' For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I'm in the public eye.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • People
  • Believe
  • Fear

• Silence is a source of great strength.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Silence
  • Strength

• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Fear
  • Strength

• Once, this had been the life I’d wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn’t believe that there had been a time when this kind of monotony and silence, this most narrow of existences, had been preferable. Then again, once, I’d never known anything else.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Believe
  • Kind
  • Existence

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Solitude

• Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.

  

  Rumi
  • Two
  • Worlds
  • Sit

• Some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Time
  • Silence

• The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Silence
  • Written
  • Whispered

• For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease.

  

  George Packer
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• Silence gives the proper grace to women.

  

  Sophocles
  • Women
  • Silence
  • Grace

• The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now, if one awakens in the deep darkness of the small hours, one can hear it, a foretaste of Winter silence. It’s a little painful now, and a little lonely because it is so strange.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Small
  • Deep
  • Winter

• The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Good
  • Democracy
  • Silence

• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Man
  • Silence
  • Known

• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Grow

• Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Crazy
  • Silence

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• In Dance and Music, Silence swims to reach our soul.

  

  Nelly Mazloum
  • Soul
  • Silence

• Ask the world to reveal its quietude - not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World
  • True
  • Clouds

• To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people - so ignoring it doesn't make a difference.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Silence
  • Trolls

• A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence! Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear! And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beginning
  • Silence
  • Tree

• Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Reason
  • Happiness
  • Human Need

• It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..." "I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Water
  • Worry
  • Silence

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