Silence Quotes

• Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Free
  • Looks

• Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a them/us issue; we are all on the scale somewhere. So we must be very careful to resist ignorance and combat the stigma that leads to dangerous silence.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Silence
  • Ignorance

• The most profound statements are often said in silence.

  

  Lynn Johnston
  • Silence
  • Profound

• Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that`s been to ignore or to rally around. And that`s something that systematically we are going to need to break this blue wall of silence if we`re ever going to dramatically change and end the culture of police violence.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Culture
  • Violence
  • Wall

• Somewhere under the hurricane a sea turtle rows through silence.

  

  Alicia Ostriker
  • Silence
  • Hurricane
  • Turtle

• My idea of fun is to sit looking at a blank wall in a cottage, making up stories in utter silence. The thought of going back to work in an office is horrendous.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.

  

  Archibald Rutledge
  • Destiny
  • Stars
  • Solitude

• To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Musician
  • Canvas
  • Songwriter

• I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Society
  • Lies
  • Sins

• As editor, I think we need to act more decisively on what kind of material appears on the 'Guardian'. Those who argue that this is an affront to freedom of speech miss the point. That freedom counts for little if it is used to silence others.

  

  Katharine Viner
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Silence
  • Spaces
  • Frightens

• Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

  

  Billy Collins
  • American
  • Poetry
  • Honor

• All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.

  

  Sallust
  • Animals
  • Enthusiastic
  • Fashioned

• But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Sleep
  • Faces
  • Pillow

• A good deed hidden in silence dies.

  

  Pindar
  • Good
  • Silence

• Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Small
  • Voice
  • Be Confident

• As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie." I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the Holly reference in the opening stanzas. You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me. You will find many “interpretations” of my lyrics but none of them by me. Isn’t this fun? Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.

  

  Don McLean
  • Long
  • American
  • Fun

• I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Listening
  • Autumn
  • Saws

• Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Believe
  • Secret
  • Wise Men

• But when she tried to say something, the words always seemed trite and inadequate. Nothing measured up. When any moment might be their last, there was nothing she could ever imagine saying that had the necessary dignity to fill that instant. Silence was better. Silence had its own dignity.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Up
  • She
  • Words

• If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

  

  Enoch Powell
  • Words
  • Friend
  • Silence

• If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • World
  • Death
  • Single

• The day in his hotness, The strife with the palm; The night in her silence, The stars in their calm.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Night
  • Silence
  • Calm

• But there is a Pope in the breast of each of us whom is hard to silence. Long ago a lady said to me, when I asked her the composers she liked: 'Dvorak.' I said before I could stop myself: 'Dvorak!' How many times, and with what shame, I’ve remembered it. And now I like Dvorak...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Long
  • She
  • Stop

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