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

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Time
- Silence

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

Rumi
- Two
- Worlds
- Sit
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

Cameron Diaz
- You
- Silence
- Dawn
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
- Lonely