Silence Quotes
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silence.Steven Wright
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?Steven Wright
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.Blaise Pascal
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.Aldous Huxley
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.Saadi
Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.H. G. Mendelson
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
The most profound statements are often said in silence.Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01 - 15 - 04
Your very silence shows you agree.Euripides
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
Silence is more musical than any song.Christina Rossetti
True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.Visions of Gregorian Chants
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.Beckett
The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.Leon Samson
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.Pythagoras
Silence is one great art of conversation.Anon.
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.Kahlil Gibran
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.John Tillotson
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.Edith Sitwell
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.Simon MacDonald
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.George Orwell
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.William Rose Benet
We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.Phyllis Mcginley
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.John Lah
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.Henri Frdric Amiel
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.Robert Louis Stevenson
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.Alice Walke
