Silence Quotes

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Joyce Carol Oates

Car, Yourself, Writing

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
Nellie Bly

Live, Human, Cannot

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
Vittorio Alfieri

Deep, Vengeance, Daughter

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
William Drummond

Peace, Words, Before

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

Sympathy, Past, Nation

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
Lech Walesa

Speak, Fall, Happened

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Moment, Religious, Inherently

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Strong, Child, Deeper

Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich

Done, Words, Lying

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

Noise, Continual, Sleeps

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.
Britney Spears

Love, Best, Someone

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
Marcel Marceau

Show, Reflection, Movement

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
Marcel Marceau

Through, Thoughts, Between

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

Music, Writing, Reason

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
Cameron Diaz

Until, Complete, Dawn

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Bryan Ferry

Anywhere, Noticed, Nowadays

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
Gary Oldman

Enjoy, Playing, Characters

Listen to the sound of silence.
Paul Simon

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon

Words, Written, Sounds

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell

Music, Personal, Reading

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.
Alice Cooper

Freedom, Play, Between

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
Laura Linney

Industry, Terrified

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
Laura Linney

Once, While, Crave

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.
Ron Wyden

Health, Insecurity, Care

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.
Michael Ende

Great, Old, Around

Silence is more musical than any song.
Christina Rossetti

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Life, Everything, Speaking

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

Women, Bored, Talk

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Karen Armstrong

Lose, Solitude, Loner

I don't know what silence sounds like anymore.
will.i.am

Anymore, Sounds

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