Top 60 Quotes About Silent Person
#1. Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#2. My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.
Patricia Briggs
#3. Harriet was silent, thinking, and then she said, "It is too hard to be a person. You don't only have to go on and on. You have to be
" she looked for the word she needed and could not find it. Then, "You have to be tall as well," said Harriet.
Rumer Godden
#4. The chamber grew suddenly silent, the only other person with first-hand knowledge of the matter staring pensively at the floor.
Marcha A. Fox
#5. My hand moves of its own volition, probably more out of shock than anything else, and I slap him hard right across the face. The room falls silent, and everyone's looking at me like I'm some kind of crazy person.
L. H. Cosway
#6. That winter he was invited to give a reading at the University of Massachusetts (Boston), but not a single person showed up. He sat in the silent lecture hall while his two sponsors gazed at their watches; finally Yates suggested they adjourn to a bar. He didn't seem particularly surprised.
Blake Bailey
#7. If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.
Frank Pavone
#8. working slowly, destroying the mind, stealing a lifetime of memories, and robbing a person's dignity and identity, in the end leaving them silent.
Cindy Reynes
#9. Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be
silent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.
Kedar Joshi
#10. We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
#11. A truly wise person uses few words; a person with understanding is even-tempered. 28 Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.
Anonymous
#12. Agatha Christie n. A silent, putrid fart committed by someone in this very room, and only one person knows whodunnit.
VIZ
#13. Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made.
Samuel Beckett
#14. Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.
Leon Foucault
#15. The worst type of letting go isn't thekicking or the screaming ,because at least then there's enough emotion left to fight.No,the worst type is the silent acceptance.The quietness of the release.That's when the person realizes they no longer give a damn.
Katie McGarry
#16. Presence is a noun, not a verb; it is a state of being, not doing. States of being are not highly valued in a culture that places a high priority on doing. Yet, true presence or "being with" another person carries with it a silent power.
Jay Allison
#17. Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#18. Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#19. But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.
E. M. Forster
#20. She is like me.
Silent.
I admire that in a person. The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence.
Introspection requires you to think and analyze.
It's hard to do that when you are blabbing away.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#21. I think anything like that-
which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone-
people always feel sad. Is it because we've lost the art of being alone?
Andrew Wyeth
#22. We should observe the place, the occasion, the temper in which we find the person who listens to us, for if there is much art in speaking to the purpose, there is no less in knowing when to be silent.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#23. Why does this person, who doesn't even speak our language, care so much about us that he is willing to risk his life for us? It moved us both to tears. I said a silent prayer of thanks as we became a part of the night.
Yeonmi Park
#24. Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.
E. Nesbit
#25. Light travels differently in a room that contains another person; it reflects and refracts so that even when she was silent or sleeping I knew that she was there.
David Nicholls
#26. We are often told that Jesus spoke more on the topic of hell than did any other person in the Bible. This would not be difficult for Him to do, since almost all the biblical authors were silent on the subject.
Steve Gregg
#27. Tamar noticed that she had never met a person she felt so comfortable being silent with.
David Grossman
#28. If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.
Jaroslav Seifert
#29. Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.
Soren Kierkegaard
#30. As if a person's greatness need never be pointed out, for it is there, anyway, in the silent being.
Morrissey
#32. Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing.
Shannon L. Alder
#33. Oh, to be held as though nothing else in the world mattered. It was a promise. Every touch, every kiss, was a silent pact to love and adore the person to whom it was given.
Alexandria Clarke
#34. I'm the kind of person who becomes silent when I get scared, because I hope Death will not notice me if I am very still and very quiet. It has worked well so far.
Mindy Kaling
#35. Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.
Paulo Coelho
#37. Here's what bothers me about adults. They say we're supposed to be the bigger person and lie there like road kill while the bullies repeatedly run us over. That we're saying more by taking the abuse and staying silent, than sticking up for ourselves. I don't see it that way.
Lauren Hammond
#38. Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent hate charades.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#39. He had to ask these questions and then remain absolutely silent. Listening in silence was essential to making a comprehensive scan of a person's soul.
Nina George
#40. I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.
Franz Kafka
#41. The silence in our house now is born from the need for intense concentration, as we all carefully step around the truth we wish we didn't know, the person we can't help that Bo became, the future we're all afraid is collapsing around us, falling as silent and cold and crushing as snow.
Beth Revis
#42. What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love? The flame keeps gnawing into her tender marrow hour by hour, and deep in her heart the silent wound lives on.
Virgil
#43. I think sometimes just being silent and watching can change a person.
Shannon Hale
#44. It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
Macklemore
#45. Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of
disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and
still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
Susanna Kaysen
#46. But life had shifted its weight from one point to another, from one leg to the other, like a silent giant in the vast shadows against the ridge, and I did not feel like the person I had been when this day began, and I did not even know if that was something to be sorry for.
Per Petterson
#47. Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Horace
#48. If a person is Silent it doesn't mean he doesn't have to say anything, but It means Life has taught Him some Lessons which has made Him Silent..!
Nutan Bajracharya
#49. A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness.
Debasish Mridha
#50. 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 ...
Paula Cole
#51. I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.
Theodore Bikel
#52. Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.
Ravi Zacharias
#53. Created a word game to play with a person you're fighting with. Silent Treatment. Nothing happens until one of you quietly says, Hey, you hungry?
Dane Cook
#54. Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
Earl Warren
#55. God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called "The Word." The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God's continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of His mind.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#56. She ducked from her doorway and pressed on, neither too fast nor too slow, soft bootheels silent on the dewy cobbles, her unexceptional hood drawn down to an inconspicuous degree, the very image of a person with just the average amount to hide.
George R R Martin
#58. After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
Nelson Mandela
#59. So yeah. Jesse Walker was giving me the silent treatment. I was probably the only person who could claim that honor.
Nicole Williams
#60. ...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.
Paulo Coelho
