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Silence Quotes

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Life Great Together Silence Fashion

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

Love Eyes Fire Soul Silence Love Is

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Knowledge Great Silence Born Poetic

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

Commitment Silence End More Vietnam

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.

Family Great Time Silence Start Out

I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

Music Silence Isolation Find Write

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Time Silence Expression Most

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

Stanley Hauerwas

Life Silence War Right Take Taken

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Benjamin Franklin

Silence Idle Must Word Every

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Silence Feeling Deepest Always Shows

My first interview at 'SI,' I sat in silence next to Guy LaFleur for five minutes on the New York Rangers team bus until he finally broke the ice. Those early interviews, every one of them was like a terrible first date.

Silence New York Team Ice Early New

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

Woman Silence Story Own Her Must

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good History Silence People Bad

If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy.

Alone Day Silence Crazy Night Know

Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

Creativity Words Silence Thoughts

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

Change Day Bullying Silence School

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

Silence Think You Emptiness Began

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

Silence Crazy You Say Never Give

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Dance Silence Mountain River Climb

I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.

Work Silence Start Way Same Any

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Silence Write Emptiness Own Being

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

Life Silence People Bear Right

Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.

Ignorance Silence Face Better Silent

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

Ramana Maharshi

Silence Language Flow Speaking Ever

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