Quotes About Silence

To me, the European Union says there is a charter that protects you; you have fundamental rights, and they are staying silent when they are violating my fundamental rights.

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.

When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they're in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a result, the public hears only about them, but never from them, which makes their demonization virtually inevitable.

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Talking can keep people in their heads and safely away from their emotions. Being silent is like emptying the trash. When you stop tossing junk into the void—words, words, and more words—something important rises to the surface.

You didn't fall in love with me before our first date, when I told you I had a six-year-old," I say. "You knew what to do then, didn't you?" More suffocating silence. As you've probably guessed, this conversation goes nowhere.

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

Nobody, nothingever gave megreater thingthan timeunless lightand silencewhich if intensemakes sound

Like all the girls back then I knew that being too clever was much worse than being too tall. Being five foot three, tongue-tied and blonde I mostly passed muster, except that I was so unskilled in small talk that I sometimes blurted big words (hypocrisy, or pretentiousness), which jumped out of my mouth like the toads of the fairy tale before I knew it. In any case, you could cultivate the wrong sort of silence - the sort that implied brooding self-absorption rather than attentiveness.

Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence. -Engraved on the monument Clay built

It was easier to break promises when they weren't voiced.

You can't imagine how much it hurts to be ignored by people… you respect. You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts. It's bad enough watching the hatred touch my brothers. I'd rather die than see it touch you.

Fewer candles flickered. Fewer words were spoken. Fewer breaths were taken.

Shame, when she was younger, had stopped her. Fear, as she grew older, trapped the truth within her.

So he held the words tightly inside, safe from ridicule, safe from harm..

sometimes, silence can be very loud

You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts.

For the last time they walked side by side to the gate, speaking not a word, as though too much remained to be said and so little time remained to say it.