"Silence" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Silence"

"I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls."

--- A. L. Rowse

#Silence #Green #Beauty

"Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer."

--- A. Lee Martinez

#Silence #Eye #Drawers

"When something important is going on, silence is a lie."

--- A. M. Rosenthal

#Silence #Silence Is #Truth

"Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie.""

--- A. M. Rosenthal

#Silence #Silence Is #Loud Voices

"Only silence perfects silence."

--- A. R. Ammons

#Silence

"Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I'm traveling. I watch movies without sound."

--- A. R. Rahman

#Silence #Cutting #Sound

"They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Silence #One Night #Possession

"Silence is a text easy to misread."

--- A.A. Attanasio

#Silence #Silence Is #Easy

"A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary."

--- A.M. Homes

#Thinking #Silence #People

"But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act."

--- Aaron Spelling

#Silence #I Can #Pencils

"My car's my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We're in the most comfortable seats because we're not facing each other, but sitting side by side. We don't look at each other, but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult. Nobody serves anybody. And many other aspects. One most important thing is that it transports us from one place to another."

--- Abbas Kiarostami

#Silence #Big Screen #Transport

"You've noticed that same joke told by two different people, once works, and the other time doesn't, simply because how the person edits it. The silences, the pauses, what they neglect, what they emphasize - all of this matters."

--- Abbas Kiarostami

#People #Silence #Neglect

"We don't look at each other [in the car], but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult."

--- Abbas Kiarostami

#Silence #Big Screen #Screens

"Hello Rush," she said, breaking the silence. The sound of her voice almost sent me to my knees. God, I'd missed her voice. "Blaire," I managed to say, terrified that I'd scare her away just by speaking."

--- Abbi Glines

#Silence #Said #Voice

"As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined."

--- Abbi Glines

#Silence #Filled #Speakers

"Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along."

--- Abby May Alcott

#Yoke #Silence #Feels

"Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues."

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#Silence #Being Wise #Lips

"Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope."

--- Aberjhani

#Silence #Grace #Woundedness

"Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers."

--- Aberjhani

#Silence #Book #Feels

"It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence."

--- Aberjhani

#Silence #Insidious #Difficult

"To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear--filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Silence #Veils #Ornaments

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Silence #Silence Is #Remove

"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Silence #Should #Men

"I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Silence #Unusual #Tongue

"Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Thinking #Silence #War

"At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language."

--- Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

#Silence #Silence Is #Emotion

"And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history."

--- Adam Hochschild

#Silence #Division #Celebrate

"For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole."

--- Adam Weishaupt

#Silence #Zest #Oppression

"When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring."

--- Adam Young

#People #Silence #Old People

"These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead."

--- Adelaide Crapsey

#Silence #Justice #Snow

30 "Silence" Quotes