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.
James Broughton

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
Martin Buber

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
Philip Pullman

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous Huxley

Great souls suffer in silence.
Friedrich Schiller

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Gilbert Parker

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
William Dean Howells

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
Aishwarya Rai

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.
Trey Anastasio

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
Lech Walesa

I can hear the roar of women's silence.
Thomas Sankara

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey

I continued to protect him with my silence.
Joyce Maynard

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
Georg Trakl

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
Bernadette Devlin

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
Sting