Quotes About Silence

I had been working with a community of survivors who had lost their relatives and were too scared to talk about it.

You see, 'The Look of Silence' is the first film ever made where survivors confront perpetrators who still hold a monopoly on power. It's normally never done because it is too dangerous.

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures, even objects. They are more difficult to interpret, and take time before they arouse suspicion.

Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.

The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

I remember seeing the performance Samantha Morton did in 'Sweet and Low Down' where she didn't speak at all, and I loved it so much because she got to do so much work just by expressing herself in her body and her face. With expressions, it wasn't necessary to speak. I find that appealing.

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

A great deal of our work involves switching music off.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

What happened in Iraq and Syria was that the world remained silent as ISIS expanded.

#MeToo shows this bias is systemic, that people get away with violence against women, get away with discrimination - whether in work or society in general - because, for too long, silence has been the answer.

Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It's the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence.

Without going into any details, he

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. —George Eliot

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.

Pray about it before you talk about it,' Drew replied. 'Maybe I should try.' 'No maybes about it.

Avec celui que nous aimons, nous avons cessé de parler, et ce n'est pas le silence. --- Gdy z osob? kochan? przestajemy mówi?, nie zapada cisza.

Unforeseen universe, what oceans may lead to their shores the navigators of silence?

We all struggle. It's just that some of us struggle out loud and some of us don't

It turned out that every single child on the school bus had known that one of their Kevins was missing. They had not mentioned it to the driver, or their teacher, or each other. They took it that Kevin had been left, forever, for some reason, which would become clear to them, with patience, in the course of time.

There comes a point when all the secrets are told and all that is left are their spent ghosts.