Silence Quotes (350)
Quotes and citations about silence
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
By : Ansel Adams
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
By : Kate Adie
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
By : Aeschylus
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.
By : Alejandro Amenabar
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.
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.
By : Jean Arp
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.
By : Emanuel Ax
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
By : Faith Baldwin
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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.
By : Daniel Barenboim
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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.
By : Samuel Beckett
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
By : Samuel Beckett
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
By : Samuel Beckett
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
By : William R. Benet
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
By : Isaiah Berlin
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat
By : Nellie Bly
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.
By : Wes Borland
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
By : Pierre Bourdieu
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
By : F. H. Bradley
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
By : Emily Bronte
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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.
By : James Broughton
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
By : Elizabeth Barrett Browning