Only silence perfects silence.
If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them.
There're people all over the world that have access to Suicide Silence because of the internet and everyone that listens to you has a better chance to paying to see you play.
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.
We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. . . . We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer. . . how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. . . . There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]
I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.
Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.
I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.
Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.