Quotes About Silence

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

There's a degree of deception in silence.

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don't want our blunders in history to get repeated.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

Actors have to have conversations not just with dialogue but with silences.

I'd love to go to Russia and silence that crowd and give the Russian fans something to cry about.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

Their silence is praise enough.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

I aspire only to silence.

Listen to the sound of silence.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

On September 11, people were shaken, but they quickly calmed down. There was a flash of awareness, which lasted a few fractions of a second. People could feel that something was happening. Then a blanket of silence covered up the crack in our certainty of safety.