Silence Quotes

• Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Guilt
  • Deeper
  • Blunt

• The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Wound

• -true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • True
  • Silence

• At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in silence for so long, this good woman who refuse to believe she's good, for only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Break

• Skins on skins against a wide unveiling in hair like riots in the false collaborative witness. Seas in spinning silence of the corridors of plasmatic fish rising to fit their homes against our home as well and writhe the poison of their 300,000,000 heads of hidden sickness, upon the tongues of those the dying night had yet to memorize.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Skins
  • Poison
  • Witness

• To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Comedy
  • Silence

• Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of such specimens is sheer vanity and inquisitiveness. I do not presume to say; but we find in our mountains the rarest animals, shells, mussels, and corals embalmed in stone, as it were, living specimens of which are now being sought in vain throughout Europe. These stones alone whisper in the midst of general silence.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Different
  • Science
  • Animal

• The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Beautiful
  • Inspiration
  • Born

• At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no more tinkering. The dog is the perfect beast, companion, friend, shoulder to lean on, and scapegoat when too many cookies are missing. And a dog won't hold that against you, either. I am at peace sitting in silence with a dog.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Dog

• Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

  

  Michael Ryan Pritchard Green Day
  • Life
  • Silence
  • Be present

• Nobody did get better in the 1970's and 80's. All we knew was that people died… There was a collective silence and hopelessness around this disorder.

  

  Caroline Adams Miller
  • People
  • Died
  • Hopelessness

• The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.

  

  Swami Sivananda
  • Heart
  • Language
  • Silence

• All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.

  

  William Stafford
  • Waiting
  • Summer
  • Winter

• Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Silence
  • Silent
  • Worth

• Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Silence
  • Empire
  • Kingdom Of Death

• The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.

  

  Carlos Gavito
  • Moments
  • Dance
  • Secret

• There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead.

  

  Eva Hart
  • Silence
  • Stars
  • Dark Night

• To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.

  

  Elizabeth Towne
  • Wisdom
  • Silence
  • Accomplish

• Because you brand our tongues with silence. Because you watch us in fear, even while we sing.

  

  Eric Gamalinda
  • Silence
  • Sing
  • Brand

• It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Silence
  • Rain
  • Watched

• Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Joy
  • Silence
  • Littles

• If you have evidence that C1 is a cause of E, and no evidence as to whether C2 is also a cause of E, then C1 seems to be a better explanation of E than C1&C2 is, since C1 is more parsimonious. I call the version of Ockham's razor used here "the razor of silence." The better explanation of E is silent about C2; it does not deny that C2 was a cause. The problem changes if you consider two conjunctive hypotheses.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Changes
  • Evidence
  • Explanation

• In terms of rock and roll, I'm often drawn to louder, rougher stuff; maybe that's my history as a punk rock wannabee showing itself! Honestly, though, I'm not one of those people who listens to music constantly. I really love silence.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • People
  • Music
  • History

• We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Listening
  • Leadership
  • Silent

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