365 quotes found
“Silence is the biggest weapon sometime..”
“Men who cannot be silent will not say anything when they talk.”
“If people were silent, they could hear the noise of their own lives better. If people were silent, it would make what they did say, whenever they chose to say it, more important. If people were sil...”
“Silence introduced in a society that worships noise is like the Moon exposing the night. Behind darkness is our fear. Within silence our voice dwells. What is required from both is that we be still...”
“Silence is its own kind of tension.”
“When silence is a living thing, it can be a friend, sometimes even a comfort.”
“Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal.”
“Silence is what causes most of humanities problems.”
“Silence is a 'contingent' phenomenon with positive or negative qualities. When it has to be assessed it needs to be 'contextualized' by exploring its background.”
“Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept its mouth shut?”
“His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. "I thought I heard something.""Yeah, well, guess what? Im a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!”
“There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say--unless you insist on saying it.”
“The contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.”
“You whispered softly in the ear of my joyous heart.You know what's on my mind, you've heard my thoughts.I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
“And it was so still. The silence of the fields seemed to enter and move familiarly through the house. The wind used the open hall. He felt that he was in a mysterious, quiet, cool danger. It was ne...”
“It was deep and wide as autumns ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”
“The thing that seemed like silence must have been the endless cry of all the crickets and locusts in the world, rising and falling.("The Wide Net")”
“The silence ringsit is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audibleI hear the unspeakable.”
“But as the years passed, Ned's silence grew and grew. It pressed upon his face and his body. It leaked into the house and spread outward into the yard. His silence had weight. It had substance and ...”
“The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.”
