Quotes About Silence

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

I had been silent and silenced about an abortion I'd had years before. Like many women, I'd been made to feel at fault, not realizing there were political reasons why female humans were not supposed to make decisions about our own bodies.

Not one study has proved that women talk more than men, but numerous studies indicate that men talk more than women. Women are thought to be more talkative than men because they are being measured against the expectation of female silence.

Given the chance, others will set our priorities for us. Yet God specifically has a calling for each of us that will only come from Him. To discern this, we need wisdom. Without God's wisdom, we make decisions on facts and feelings. To find wisdom, I need to silence the demands of many, to hear the commands of One.

Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

Now I find my good men Are gathered in the night To wait in silence, not to sleep And the glorious word of liberty They whisper and murmur Till in unaccustomed strangeness On the steps of our temper Once again in delight they cry Freedom! Freedom!

Tout ce qui n'a pas été dit ni fait le jour erre la nuit dans notre poitrine.

We talk far too much. We should talk less and draw more. I personally should like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic Nature, communicate everything I have to say in sketches.

You never learn anything if you're the one talking

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

She did not especially appreciate children either, but could be kind to them when they were silent.

Silence," Che Guevara told us, "is argument carried on by other means.

So the Communist Party has shown the world that only force will be able to move it. The people are supposed to be intimidated by this colossal display of obstinacy, and, at least for the moment, many are. But they just wait in silence and let their resentments fester. The Party knows how to suppress, but it no longer has the power to lead. It has forgotten what once made it great.

I stood upon an ocean's short, And viewed the silent deep; While 'neath the brightly beaming stars All nature lay asleep. As 'lone I paced that pebbly strand, And thought of those above, An angel seem'd to whisper me,— There's nothing true but love.

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

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Finding words of no avail, I next resorted to tears.

Death is a sudden silence — one of those deafening silences that leaves ringing in your ears.

You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut.

Chronic pain sufferers tend to minimize their pain to try to seem as normal as possible. We don't want to be perceived as complainers so we keep much of our pain experiences to ourselves.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.