Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.
One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.
You may succeed in silencing me, but that silence comes at a price, you may succeed in silencing one man, but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.
Our silence is our real propaganda.
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.
When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.
Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.
In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.
Restrain yourself. . . and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain.
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.
It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. . . Even the streams were now lifeless. . . No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
But the silence spoke volumes.
You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.
My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul.
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.