quotations about silence
Silence is a choice, it is not a secondary action, but a conscious decision made in a moment. This is not always something that we want to acknowledge. However, it is an important reality that we have the opportunity to confront head on.
MELISSA HURLEY
"Choosing silence", Record Bee, August 12, 2017
Silence is in the ear of the beholder.
ALEX BEAM
Boston Globe, August 7, 2017
There are so many things in life that we ought to be silent about. Nearly always they are unpleasant. Our silence tends to minimize them, often to destroy them altogether. By speaking of them, we give them renewed life and activity. If every one of us could only take the unpleasant as it enters consciousness and let it perish there, what a burden would be lifted off the world.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Silence", Reactions and Other Essays
Black emptiness
Despair
Dead I am
Infinite darkness and
Dreams
My journey begins
Forlorn in silence
LORD BELIAL
"Forlorn in Silence"
Saying the things you do not have to say weakens your talk.
WILLIAM STAFFORD
Crossing Unmarked Snow
Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
ROBERT E. HOWARD
Kull: Exile of Atlantis
Silence stopped us slipping into the lousy script.
GLEN DUNCAN
Talulla Rising
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Break the silence
Break the surface
Open your eyes
And be free
RMB
"Break the Silence"
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
And silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.
OLIVER WENDALL HOLMES
The Music Grinder
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Quiet American
Silence taunts: a dare. Everything that disappears
Disappears as if returning somewhere.
TRACY K. SMITH
"The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"