Silence Quotes
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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
Virginia Woolf
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
Alexandre Dumas
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The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact.
Garry Robbins
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
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I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.
Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
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We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.
Elizabeth Chandler
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Silence allows me to hear what's really going on in my head.
Eric Lange
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One word from you shall silence me forever.
Jane Austen
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My feelings for you shame me into silence.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Silence makes me feel vulnerable.
Eric Lange
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Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care. Deepen your love for one another by praying for each other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have received in prayer and reading.
Mother Teresa
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A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.
Neil Genzlinger
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What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
Jules Michelet
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What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.
Alexey Leonov
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Then I felt up silence. Then silence and I went all the way.
Bob Hicok
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The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.
Thomas Carlyle
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The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.
David Duke
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Dare, will, keep silence.
William Bolitho
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Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
Virginia Woolf
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Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.
Dacia Maraini
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And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
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It really is that easy. I can say no. I can tell him I have a problem, and it becomes just a…thing. An obstacle. Something I can attack. It was only silence that made it insurmountable.
Courtney Milan