Silence Quotes - Page 40

• The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stars, Darkness, Heard

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Silence is often the best thing to say.

  Frank Herbert

  Silence Is, Best Things

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.105, Penguin

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.

  Austin O'Malley

  Death, May, Strange

  4 Copy quote

• We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

  Walter de La Mare

  Lying, Sleep, Days Gone By

  Walter De La Mare (2007). “The Listeners and Other Poems”, p.34, Wildside Press LLC

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

  Benito Mussolini

  Ignorance, Giving, Advice

  "The Book of Italian Wisdom" by Antonio Santi, Citadel Press, (p. 87), 2003.

  327 Copy quote

  Show source

• Silence is like a flame, you see?

  Marcel Marceau

  Flames, Silence Is

  Interview with Charlie Rose, September 27, 2000.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

  Toni Onley

  Travel, Home, Land

  6 Copy quote

• I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

  Robyn

  Mother, Speechless, Shocking

  26 Copy quote

• I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.

  Bruno Monguzzi

  Littles, Our Society, Noisy

  8 Copy quote

• There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead.

  Eva Hart

  Stars, Dark, Night

  25 Copy quote

• The purpose of sound is silence.

  Jill Purce

  Sound, Purpose

  11 Copy quote

• Listen into the silences where the best words begin.

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.

  Edith Sitwell

  Sleep, Reality, Sea

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.

  Cesare Pavese

  Dark, Night, Old Wounds

  Cesare Pavese, Geoffrey Brock (2002). “Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950”, Copper Canyon Pr

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

  Cesare Pavese

  Long, Suffering, Long Suffering

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upon me. A priori dogmatism, applying itself to God, has proved fruitless: who knows whither the hypothesis, in its turn, will lead us? I will explain therefore how, studying in the silence of my heart, and far from every human consideration, the mystery of social revolutions, God, the great unknown, has become for me an hypothesis, I mean a necessary dialectical tool.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Mean, Heart, Feelings

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1888). “System of Economical Contradictions: Or, The Philosophy of Misery”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Desire, Purpose

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Needs, Speak, I Can

  4 Copy quote

• Silence is a great peacemaker.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Peacemaker, Silence Is

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2429, Delphi Classics

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Wind, Roots

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.73

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Warrior, Dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.471

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Hope, Strong, Distance

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.573, Delphi Classics

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

  John Dryden

  Secret, Guilt, Betrayed

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.222

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.

  Herman Melville

  Profound, Emotion, Consecration

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2918, Delphi Classics

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Lying, Safety, Missing

  64 Copy quote