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Quotes About Silence

I'll give you this strawberry if you keep it a secret. --L (Death Note)
~ Tsugumi Ohba
Each day, each noise I gather explodes, leaving me to death; to rest in the solace of silence & to be re-born.
~ Gopichand Lagadapati
Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.
~ Thomas Carlyle
But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.
~ Brian Lumley
People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
~ William S. Burroughs
I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
~ Virginia Woolf
My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn
~ Naoko Takeuchi
The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.
~ Anne Sexton
Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.
~ Tahar Djaout
Death is an eternal sleep.
~ Unknown
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
~ Unknown
There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.
~ Ben Hecht
Rest is for the dead.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.
~ Pablo Neruda
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.
~ Roland Barthes
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
~ Wendell Berry
The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
~ William Osler
The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death
~ Joseph Conrad
When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
~ Mason Cooley
In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
What is thy sentence then but speechless death.
~ William Shakespeare
That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.
~ Annie Fellows Johnston
Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare
~ Unknown