Kept Silent Quotes

#1. If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

Socrates

#2. Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

Homer

#3. What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent.

Francine Rivers

#5. She asked me why I am not answering her questions. I looked at her with love and kept silent. Silence is my best answer for her intriguing questions.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Quite pure, quite free of future planning, I mounted
the tangled funeral pyre built for my suffering,
so sure of nothing more to buy for future needs,
while in my heart the stored reserves kept silent.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

Plutarch

#8. I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent

Publilius Syrus

#9. How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?

Elie Wiesel

#10. Even if you have kept silent for the sake of the dead, you cannot rest in your silence, as the dead rest.

Eudora Welty

#11. Lips which lie are best kept silent.

Stephen King

#12. She kept silent for fifty miles as he looked out his window at the last gasps of fall in the distant hills - pretty red and yellow swaths of foliage surrounded by sad patches of gray, like an unfinished oil painting.

Drew Magary

#13. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

Elie Wiesel

#14. Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.

Rachel Carson

#15. There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.

William Shatner

#16. There was no mistake," he said. "You freely gave me a kiss because I kept silent about supposed engagement."
Well, you could have been more gentlemanly about it," she said with a sniff.
"If I'd been gentlemanly, you wouldn't have enjoyed it half as much.

Vicky Dreiling

#17. Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet.

Elena Mukhina

#20. There was no speaking among the string of riders. The sharp cold, the fatigue of the journey, and a new sensation of a catching in the breath, partly as if they had just emerged from very clear crisp water, and partly as if they had been sobbing, kept them silent.

Charles Dickens

#21. Realities that kept the music silent, the dreams in a box.

Robert James Waller

#22. I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.

Carly Pope

#23. Guilt and shame have, until now, kept me silent on this issue. I am old enough, even if just twenty, to know that I have no logical reason to feel either guilt or shame, that I was the victim, not the victimizer. Yet I've been so long marinated in both emotions that they will forever flavor me.

Dean Koontz

#24. For 1,300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.

Alijia Izetbegovic

#25. With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

Kathryn Stockett

#26. The fun and fame do not last, while the memory of a real helper is kept green long after poetry is forgotten and music silent.

Louisa May Alcott

#27. There is a silent deference for one another, a distance that is kept, and lines that aren't crossed, but in their sharing, they each try to pay tribute to the bond in their own way. As often as possible, they open up a little and give what they can.

Dan Groat

#28. I felt physically weak and broken down, but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind; a wretchedness which kept drawing from me silent tears.

Charlotte Bronte

#29. I kept driving straight on toward what we called home and could not say aloud the words that were thrashing me, as if somehow by remaining silent I could keep the terrible thing from having occurred.

Russell Banks

#30. He turned and walked across the floor and out. I watched the door close. I listened to his steps going away down the imitation marble corridor. After a while they got faint, then they got silent. I kept on listening anyway.

Raymond Chandler