It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.
I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
There is a warning for those Muslim countries, which witnessed all these as a silent spectator. What had earlier been done to the innocent people of Iraq, Chechnya, and Bosnia?
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.
It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!
I decide every day that I love Creativity enough to accept that Fear will always come with it. And I talk to Fear all the time, speaking to it with love and respect, saying to it: “I know that you are Fear, and that your job is to be afraid. And you do your job really well! I will never ask you to leave me alone or to be silent, because you have a right to speak your own voice, and I know that you will never leave me alone or be silent, anyhow. But I need you to understand that I will always choose Creativity over you.
My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.
Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?
Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them
Nothing is more useful than silence.
Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.
I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .
Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, you’ve got to learn to unplug. No texting, no email, no Facebook, no Instagram. Whatever it is you’re doing, it needs to stop while you write. A lot of the time (and this is fully goofy to admit), I’ll write with earplugs in — even if it’s dead silent at home.