Silence Quotes

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

The Election Commission stopped me from campaigning. I accepted it and reached people through my prayer - in silence. People gave their approval. Praying in silence is important, and this spiritual prayer has paid off.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

I will not allow anyone to shut me up or shame me into silence, and I'm not going to rot away behind closed doors.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

We must remind people that there is no typical or predictable person suffering from addiction, and that their pain must be met with resolve and never silence.

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

What I am already dreaming about is the roar of the take-off, followed by the absolute silence as we go into orbit, and then seeing Earth outside my window.

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

I am too conscious of being an American to accept public congratulation with good grace or to welcome it except as an occasion for expressing openly a shame which many Americans feel, day after day, helplessly and in silence.

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.