Quotes About Silence

Graveyards were the one place Belladonna never saw ghosts.

You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime.

Taking a dump...blackout

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence