Quotes About Silence

But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?

Dead men tell no tales, Mary.

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.