Quotes about Silence

47 quotes about Silence

Only poetry can fill with its wounds, the abyss of silence.

Only poetry can fill with its wounds, the abyss of silence.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about silence

Every silence performs its own swan song.

Every silence performs its own swan song. Costel Zăgan from Inventeme, translated by Dan Costinaş

Quote by Costel Zăgan about silence

Brâncuși Instead of eyes had two hourglasses one with tears Alta with angels Perhaps that's why when he was longing to flash with silence Angel Guardian And they cried A day and a night...

Quote by Costel Zăgan about silence

Although silence is gold, it does not cost anything.

Although silence is gold, it does not cost anything.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about silence

At the end of summer Oxen are chewing the hay of silence.

At the end of summer Oxen are chewing the hay of silence.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about silence

What cannot be told must be kept in silence.

What cannot be told must be kept in silence.

Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein about silence

To be alone with Silence is to be alone with God

To be alone with Silence is to be alone with God

Quote by Samuel Miller Hageman about silence

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Quote by Francis Bacon about silence

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Quote by Francis Bacon about silence

An audience would come having been fed something about how to react, and where you'd be getting tons of laughs at the preview, the next night there'd be dead silence because they'd been told that the piece isn't funny.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about silence

When words become unclear, I shall focus with...

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Quote by Ansel Adams about silence

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I...

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Quote by Aeschylus about silence

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

Quote by Aeschylus about silence

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the...

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about silence

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.

Quote by Albert Camus about silence

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Quote by Jane Austen about silence

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about silence

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not...

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about silence

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not -...

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about silence

Man spoils the things more with the words than silence.

Man spoils the things more with the words than silence.

Quote by Mahatma Gandhi about silence

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