Silence Quotes (275)
Quotes and citations about silence
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence... view
By: Ansel Adams
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it... view
By: Kate Adie
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence... view
By: Aeschylus
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm... view
By: Aeschylus
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence... view
By: Vittorio Alfieri
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer... view
By: Muhammad Ali
In some causes silence is dangerous... view
By: Saint Ambrose
In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance... view
By: Alejandro Amenabar
Only silence perfects silence... view
By: A. R. Ammons
I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall... view
By: Trey Anastasio
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... view
By: Jean Arp
No man pleases by silence.. view
By: Ausonius
From politics, it was an easy step to silence... view
By: Jane Austen
Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end... view
By: Emanuel Ax
Silence is the virtue of fools... view
By: Francis Bacon
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom... view
By: Francis Bacon
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence... view
By: Faith Baldwin
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here... view
By: Daniel Barenboim
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle... view
By: Daniel Barenboim
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it... view
By: Francis Beaumont
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on... view
By: Samuel Beckett
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence... view
By: Samuel Beckett
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness... view
By: Samuel Beckett
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo... view
By: Samuel Beckett
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know... view
By: William R. Benet
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds... view
By: Isaiah Berlin
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute... view
By: Josh Billings
I love silence... view
By: Brenda Blethyn
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat.. view
By: Nellie Bly
To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy... view
By: Elayne Boosler
There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud... view
By: Wes Borland
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence... view
By: Pierre Bourdieu
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak... view
By: Elizabeth Bowen
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat... view
By: F. H. Bradley
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.. view
By: Charlotte Bronte
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results... view
By: Emily Bronte
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words... view
By: Phillips Brooks
Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing... view
By: James Broughton
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence... view
By: Pam Brown
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!.. view
By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning