Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.
The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.
Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.
My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.
Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?
You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.
Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.
I make my music at night when there's no noise. . . Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!
Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.
As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.