I Stay Silent Quotes

#1. If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!

Victor Hugo

#2. A MILLION THOUGHTS POUR THROUGH MY HEAD, BUT LIKE HER, I STAY SILENT. THERE'S SIMPLY NOTHING TO SAY.

Marie Lu

#3. I won't stay silent anymore, not when speaking out can make a difference.

Romina Russell

#4. Shades of gray. Even if our colors are bright, as long as we stay silent, we are like a gray mouse. In praise of our speaking out.

Lara Biyuts

#5. I think silence is one of the failures of people today. When they see an injustice or intolerance, and they stay silent - that's the worst thing.

Anonymous

#6. Sometimes, I just wanted my silences to stay silent, full of thoughts, empty of words.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame.

Alain De Botton

#8. I'd leave London only for Man
United, the club of my dreams. For
Mr Ferguson I'd also stay silent on
the bench.

Adel Taarabt

#9. I cross to Peeta and wrap my arms around him, and for a while we all stay silent.

Suzanne Collins

#10. I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.

Mindy Kaling

#11. There were many reasons why I chose to stay silent about my past for so long, mostly fear and shame. Now im older and wiser.Now I understand that I should never have to live in fear of another human being, and if I do, that's their shame, not mine.

Gabriella Gillespie

#12. Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

Jeanette Winterson

#13. Most of my friends that I know now [were sexually assaulted] stayed silent. And I see that still happening today. A lot of women will stay silent and not share what happened to them.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#14. I think every creature near enough to hear that just pooped" Oberon said, "And then it went into hiding. Hunting tip number one:Stay Silent.

Kevin Hearne

#15. I cannot stay silent ... I refuse to play a role in this massacre of people's happiness.

Non Nomen

#16. It is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

Aeschylus

#17. How can I keep silent? How can I stay quiet?
My friend, whom I loved, has turned to clay,
my friend Enkidu, whom I loved has turned to clay.
Shall I not be like him, and also lie down,
never to rise again, through all eternity?

Anonymous

#18. People wrongly believe the ugliness won't touch them if they stay silent and do nothing. But by doing that, the ugliness will eventually consume them

Felicia Denise

#19. Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?

Marie Leszczynska

#20. It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

Tom Smothers

#21. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing ... not healing, not curing ... that is a friend who cares.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#22. Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.

David Toop

#23. being meek and silent prevents social violence. The message is, "I am not challenging you, I will do nothing bad, you do whatever you want and I will stay out of your way." This is exactly what a predator is looking

Rory Miller