Silence Break Quotes

#1. Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

Adrienne Rich

#2. He thought of asking her, but for no reason he could name, the silence between them seemed too hard to break.

Leah Stewart

#3. Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.

David Whyte

#4. Destroy the Spineless. Show me it's real. Wasting our last chance to come away. Just break the silence 'cos I'm drifting away, away from you..."
~New Born

Matthew J. Bellamy

#5. The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.

Audre Lorde

#6. To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.

John Muir

#7. To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: Loneliness is a type of violence.

Jonathan Messinger

#8. Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

Margaret Weis

#9. Gave him the weapon he needed to break me. Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching

Suzanne Collins

#10. To the heart in you, don't be afraid to feel. To the sun in you, don't be afraid to shine. To the love in you, don't be afraid to heal. To the ocean in you, don't be afraid to rage. To the silence in you, don't be afraid to break.

Najwa Zebian

#11. There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.

N. Scott Momaday

#12. We sit and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence.

Nicholas Sparks

#13. Abuse exists because of secrecy. If I can use this platform and talk about it and break the silence, somebody can get the help and support they need. It's such a common problem, and it doesn't need to be. All you have to do is talk about it and break the silence.

Chris Witty

#14. It's like a 'Fragile' sticker's on my forehead, and instead of taking a chance and saying something that might break me, they'd rather say nothing at all. But the silence is worst.

Angie Thomas

#15. Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence - and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence?

Robert Breault

#16. If silence could break bones, I would shatter right now, into pieces of stomachache and blueprints and desperation.

Hannah Moskowitz

#17. There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children ... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.

Jackson Katz

#18. My mother had been monologuing about how much I'd like it there while I packed up my closet in silence, wondering if I flung myself out the window, would it properly kill me or just break both my legs.

Brittany Cavallaro

#19. We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

Jackson Katz

#20. President Kennedy's assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It's like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.

Kathryn Stockett

#21. Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm."
There were a few moments of silence. "Sage, I've been waiting two months to hear you say those words. You want me to bring a ladder?

Richelle Mead

#22. What happens when two introverts collide? Do they dissolve completely in each other's patience and silence, or do they break their glass shells and become new people?

Kanza Javed

#23. For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

Linda Sanchez

#24. Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble ... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul ... ?

Albert Einstein

#25. Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma.

Chevy Chase

#26. And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#27. To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

Claudia Black

#28. I don't answer. I'm not staging a rebellion here. I stay quiet because I don't want to break down, and I learnt a long time ago that, sometimes, the only way to silence the cries is by making no sound at all.

Ally Carter

#29. Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

Amy Goodman

#30. Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion

Carmen Naranjo

#31. The purpose of the book is to break the silence and stigma surrounding sexual abuse and to educate the public on how they can be greater advocates for victims. As a people, a nation and a society, we all have a part to play in curbing this issue.

Michelle Alexander

#32. I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.

Carl Nielsen

#33. I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break.

Ruth Rendell

#34. The pull of Guyland reminds us that women cannot accomplish this transformation alone. In the book's final chapter I argue that just as men need to stand up, do the right thing and break the silence that perpetuates Guyland, so, too, do women need to support each other in resisting its pull.

Michael Kimmel

#35. The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

Matsuo Basho

#36. If you love somebody, tell them. If there is conflict, let it go and fight instead for peace. Break the numb false silence and break the distance too. Laugh and cry and apologize and start again. This life is short and fragile but friendship is among the greatest miracles.

Jamie Tworkowski

#37. I will be waiting here ... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!

Rumi

#38. Maybe faith was never meant to be some perfectly plotted, passion-driven paperback. Maybe faith is the long story of a happy marriage -- an average life made fuller, not smaller, by the pockets of silence and darkness that break into it.

Addie Zierman

#39. The longer you went without speaking, the harder it gets to break the silence.

Richard Bachman

#40. Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

Zainab Salbi

#41. Reconquer the streets, the markets - the public spaces, with the same message of opposition: We are devastated, but we will not give up. With torches and roses, we deliver this message to the world: We do not let fear break us. And we do not let the fear of fear silence us.

Jens Stoltenberg

#42. We want to make certain that every American who stood in silent tribute to Rosa Parks hopes that the Sepreme Court Judge will break silence and speak out clearly for the civil rights that define our unity as a nation.

Dick Durbin

#43. What a lovely evening," Abigail said to break the silence.
She felt his gaze on her profile. "Lovely indeed.

Julie Klassen

#44. Silence - people are afraid of it - they feel the need to make small talk, anything, just to break the stillness. I don't feel any such need. To me, silence brings about peace and certitude.

Henry Martin

#45. They wouldn't beat him up. They wouldn't break his ribs. He knew that. But they had other ways of breaking him - with silence, with disappointment, with disapproval.

David Levithan

#46. It is quiet, and when the belling tower strikes the late hour, it doesn't break the silence so much as it underpins it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#47. Sticks and stones may break my bones
When aimed with careful art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart

Na

#48. Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

William Ralph Inge

#49. He stayed close, and he stayed quiet. It was easy to do, almost; the silence above was so alarmingly complete that it was easier to keep it than to break it.

Cherie Priest

#50. The silence was terrible then, as tense as a bridge about to break, a tower to fall; unedurable in its emotion, its truth bursting to be spoken.

John Fowles

#51. Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.

Chris Witty

#52. Silence is the break between two thoughts/noises.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#53. This was killing her. She had to break the silence. This was not natural. It was too awful. People were
meant to talk.

Julia Quinn

#54. Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

Ellen Willis

#55. Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.

Doug Cooper

#56. Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

Carl Sandburg

#57. What do you do? I asked the man, to break the silence shooting up around me on all sides, thick as jungle grass

Sylvia Plath

#58. To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

Ray Bradbury

#59. The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today ...
... some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.

Martin Luther King Jr.