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
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Fear of the unknown
Is bad enough, yeah
But saying nothing
Says so much
COREY GLOVER
"Silence"
Empty afternoons of silence
Only the whirl of fans
Cutting through the air
SOCORRO PASCO
"Empty Afternoons of Silence", In the Silence of Dreaming and Selected Poems
In truth, it would seem that, living in the incessant din of a Calvinistic country, the best course for thoughtful and serious men was to be silent.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Literary Studies
When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
ANSEL ADAMS
attributed, AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world
Silence is in the ear of the beholder.
ALEX BEAM
Boston Globe, August 7, 2017
Break the silence
Break the surface
Open your eyes
And be free
RMB
"Break the Silence"
Black emptiness
Despair
Dead I am
Infinite darkness and
Dreams
My journey begins
Forlorn in silence
LORD BELIAL
"Forlorn in Silence"
Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
ROBERT E. HOWARD
Kull: Exile of Atlantis
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"