Quotes About Silence

Senators who once supported common-sense legislation have gone silent as stones under the threat of the polluters' spending.

Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.

After doing two feature films, I got an idea for a thriller film and felt this could be made without any dialogues.

No one should ever suffer in silence. Bullies thrive in silence.

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.

If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.

I think all of society should be a think-tank where you throw ideas about. I had hoped the Internet would help. Actually, what it has done is make everybody go schtum. They're attacked for saying anything. So they say nothing.

I'm a firm believer in staying out of the way. When you're on a team and the guy's throwing a no-hitter, you don't talk to them. You let them do their thing.

You are not going to silence me. You are not going to silence America. You are literally like a little gangster thug. Rubio just threatened to silence me.

I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't feel like I could talk about it. I did not want other people's pity, so I mostly kept my story and my feelings to myself.

The spring that brims and ripples oh I know in dark of night.

This was followed by a year of silence. Then he wrote to Maeda to say, "I discovered my own god.

But many mortals, devoted to their stomachs and to sleep, have passed through life untaught and uncouth, like foreign travelers; and of course, contrary to nature, their bodies were a source of pleasure to them, their minds a burden. In the case of such people, I asses their life and death alike, since silence surrounds each. -p4

But on the night preceding the day appointed for the conference, the Moor, after first assembling his friends, and then, on a change of mind, dismissing them, is reported to have had many anxious struggles with himself, disturbed alike in his thoughts and his gestures, which, even when he was silent, betrayed the secret agitation of his mind.

You never saw a fish on the wall with its mouth shut.

All she had to protect herself against him was silence, the one skill in which she had become an expert.

as if the words came not from her but from the breeze.

Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Tree I dreamt you invisible majesty hovering above the face of all things. Rooted in the pain of ash, mere man, I bore you, sepulchre, dead father, silently, within, called out to you the windswept words of lost millennia, words that kindle rage. You never answered me. You left me fearing night, hidden fire, leaping flame, tree God in the night.

Don't say his name. I don't want him in here. I will cut him out.

I go out alone to visit a man alone in this autumn dusk