Quotes About Silence

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

Ignore me. I don't want to talk about my nonexistent love life today.

They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth." Rachel

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody would want to read a book about anyway.

In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.

People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.

If You Don't want to Reveal your Secrets, Just keep your Mouth Shut.

Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!

We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.'

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.