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Quotes About Silence

And as I recall, you told me to shut up. (Acheron) I'm an asshole. I admit it. I've been going to weekly Assholes Anonymous meetings, but it takes a long time to undo a few thousand years of habit. And to think you have even more years to undo than me. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There will never be peace between us. Ever. You shattered any hope of it when you watched your brother kill me and refused to speak up on my behalf. (Acheron) I was afraid. (Artemis) And I was butchered and gutted on the floor like an animal sacrifice. Excuse me if I don't feel your pain. I'm too busy with my own. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Hush, self, let me think.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
In your palms, I've placed my life, my secrets. I give you freedom to leave me at any time. I'm not easy to love. No one ever has. All I ask is that you always keep your silence, if not for me, then for the families of the others you'd destroy. (Nykyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ninety percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.' – Cherise
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
A silent man is a thinking man. A silent woman is an angry one Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You were first-string running back last year. What happened?" – Coach "Stone's mouth happened. It needed to be closed, and I was a little too obliging to shut it." – Nick
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to sit over here with my throbbing feet and bleed in silence until we get to our destination. (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you can't improve the silence, you shouldn't be speaking. -Hauk
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Shut up, already. Just once, could I get a demon with no vocal cords? (Anonymous) At least they're not puking on us this time. (Wynter) Small favor that. (Anonymous)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
One single word and I swear I'll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Interested in some 'undercover' work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Is there something I should know?" Valerius asked them. The instant Vane opened his mouth to speak, Tabitha kicked his shin. Hard. Vane yelped, then frowned at her. "What was that?" Valerius asked. "Why did you kick him?" "No reason," Tabitha said, reaching over the bar to pluck an oyster from the pile. She looked angelic, which meant something truly evil was going on.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
His mom always said that 90 percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You haven't even read me my rights. (Josie) Here's your right. Open your mouth again and I'm going to pull your tongue over the back of your head. (Tee)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process.
~ Denise Levertov
The vast silence of Buddha overtakes and overrules the oncoming roar of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues; it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.
~ Denise Levertov
Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.
~ Djuna Barnes
Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.
~ Don DeLillo
Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.
~ Emily Dickinson
You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.
~ Emily Saliers
I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.
~ Emmanuel Petit
I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
~ Francesca Annis
Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.
~ Frederick Lenz