SILENCE QUOTES IX

quotations about silence

What has this world become
Silence has made us numb

CAROUSEL KINGS

"Silence"


It's not the reasoning
It's not the logic
It's not the questions
Third degree
It's not acceptance
No, it's not defiance
It's the silence

COREY GLOVER

"Silence"


Death's Waylaying not the sharpest
Of the thefts of Time --
There Marauds a sorer Robber,
Silence -- is his name --
No Assault, nor any Menace
Doth betoken him.
But from Life's consummate Cluster --
He supplants the Balm.

EMILY DICKINSON

"Death's Waylaying not the sharpest"

Tags: Emily Dickinson


In this white wave
I am sinking
in this silence
in this white wave
in this silence
I believe

SARAH MCLACHLAN

"Silence (Delirium)"

Tags: Sarah McLachlan


Silence gives consent.

POPE BONIFACE VIII

Canon Law, Decretals


When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.

WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Poems New and Collected


Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

FERNANDO PESSOA

The Book of Disquiet

Tags: Fernando Pessoa


Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

KHALED HOSSEINI

The Kite Runner


When two people understand each other, what wonderful things they can convey in silence.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Silence", Reactions and Other Essays


Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Angel's Game

Tags: Carlos Ruiz Zafon


Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.

ROBERT E. HOWARD

Kull: Exile of Atlantis

Tags: Robert E. Howard


Silence is deadly and inaction = complicity.

WILLIAM GRAVELY

The Weekly Challenger, August 18, 2017


But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting--that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open--shut up the mind's eye--all will be music!

WYNDHAM LEWIS

One-way Song

Tags: Wyndham Lewis


Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Tags: Christian Nestell Bovee


Fear of the unknown
Is bad enough, yeah
But saying nothing
Says so much

COREY GLOVER

"Silence"


Silence! Oh, well are Death and Sleep and Thou
Three brethren named, the guardians gloomy-winged,
Of one abyss, where life and truth and joy
Are swallowed up.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

fragment, Notebook 6

Tags: Percy Bysshe Shelley


Silence is a choice, it is not a secondary action, but a conscious decision made in a moment. This is not always something that we want to acknowledge. However, it is an important reality that we have the opportunity to confront head on.

MELISSA HURLEY

"Choosing silence", Record Bee, August 12, 2017


When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

ANSEL ADAMS

attributed, AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world


There are so many things in life that we ought to be silent about. Nearly always they are unpleasant. Our silence tends to minimize them, often to destroy them altogether. By speaking of them, we give them renewed life and activity. If every one of us could only take the unpleasant as it enters consciousness and let it perish there, what a burden would be lifted off the world.

JOHN DANIEL BARRY

"Silence", Reactions and Other Essays


The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Virginibus Puerisque