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Quotes About Silent

We were that generation called "silent," but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.
~ Joan Didion
He'll process the check." Sage was still silent, blinking at TJ. "You'll get the hang of it. I promise. And that platinum card I gave you? Gerry pays that bill too. But you have to take it into a store and buy something before he can pay it. Maybe a bed
~ Unknown
Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.
~ Jodi Picoult
There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.
~ Jodi Picoult
And I can remember just sitting there staring at you staring at me and I wanted to cry so badly.
~ Unknown
The unseen is almost always underlined with the unsaid.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I screamed without making a sound. I sobbed without shedding a tear. I died, though my heart beat on.
~ Unknown
Deep in her breast lives the silent wound.
~ Virgil
He who is strung doesn't need a tongue.
~ Unknown
Tears are the silent language of grief
~ Voltaire
He cranks up his arm, rears back, and throws, and the ball, taking an even more perfect path than it took off the bat, travels in a white arc, seeming to leave behind a line like a streak of forgotten rainbow as it drops over the fence, silent as a star falling into a distant ocean.
~ Unknown
The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.
~ Matt Czuchry
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.
~ Samuel Daniel
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
~ Alexander Pope
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.
~ Roland Barthes
If you are a reader, you are already halfway to being a writer,' she says. 'For you have a love of words and pleasure from seeing them on a page. And if you are a writer, then you will find that you are driven to write. It is a gift that demands to be shared. You cannot be a silent singer.
~ Philippa Gregory
The apostle Paul, writing in the New Testament, reminds us that the difference between the relationship we have with the one true God and the relationship pagans have with their idols is that their gods are silent (see 1 Corinthians 12:2).
~ Priscilla Shirer
Truly tough guys never say they're tough.
~ Dean Koontz
The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least - except, of course, on Election Day.
~ Bret Stephens
Surely it's no coincidence that the word listen is an anagram of the word silent.
~ Unknown
there is a word SILENT, which means khaamush, it has the exact same letters as the word LISTEN. So open your ears and tell me, what can you hear?
~ Unknown
Silent, Cassandra will pour the tea, Sit at the table, Make up the bed, find the tatters to darn, Toss them on cushions. Silent, she'll rise in the fathomless dawn, Bless you with cross-signs.
~ Irina Ratushinskaya
Movements are as eloquent as words.
~ Isadora Duncan
The Pharisees had just given Him a stubborn, silent answer to a question, so He gave them an equally silent rebuke.
~ J Oswald Sanders