Why This Silence Quotes

#1. I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.

Amitav Ghosh

#2. Oh." Dad frowns. "Why hasn't Annabel been teaching you how to walk in heels? I thought we had an agreement: I teach you how to be cool and she trains you how to be a girl."
I stare at him in silence. This explains so much.

Holly Smale

#3. When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.

Akshay Vasu

#4. There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.

Michele Norris

#5. When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

David Leavitt

#6. I said go away!"
"No, you said 'get out'. I'm out."
"Now go away."
Silence. And then, "No.

Diana Peterfreund

#7. Children born to unwed mothers,' he said after a long silence, 'have parts of their souls missing.

Bernard Cornwell

#8. It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so you can only be awake now. Even the idea of permanence is an illusion. The question to ask is 'Am I awake and fully present NOW?' That question arises and is answered in perfect silence.

Leonard Jacobson

#9. Silence always gives consent ...

Myrtle Reed

#10. Laws of silence don't work ... . When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

Tennessee Williams

#11. Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.

J.R. Ward

#12. What she most liked about their friendship was how much space there was for silence[.]

Naomi Jackson

#13. Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

Lemony Snicket

#14. He talks about despair, how it drives in silence.

Gayle Forman

#15. Truth is often better seized and louder in the silence of the written word.

Ina Catrinescu

#16. I've been prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence.

Margaret Atwood

#17. Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.

Jimmy Durante

#18. They can't foresee what we intend to do next. This is why they lose their nerve. They can't cross the zone of silence they herd us into. A zone bordered on their side by the distant din of their false accusations, and on our side by our silent final intentions.

John Berger

#19. This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

Rumi

#20. Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.

Vaclav Havel

#21. Peace is Letting Go
Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#22. My old black cat, he passed away this morning. He never knew what a heartache was. Woke up late and he danced till noon. If questioned why, answered just because. He never spoke much, preferring silence. Eight lost lives was all he had.

Ian Anderson

#23. Criticism is perhaps the citizen's primary weapon in the exercise of her legitimacy. That is why, in the corporatist society, conformism, loyalty and silence are so admired and rewarded; why criticism is so punished or marginalized. Who has not experienced this conflict?

John Ralston Saul

#24. For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I could find. Same exact thing every night, night after night. Total silence. Absolutely nothing. That's why I chose it. I know for a fact nothing bad can happen to me in here.

Charles Yu

#25. Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction ...

Alanis Morissette

#26. I'm assuming you're as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin.
No. I'm not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child.
[silence]
This is why I don't make so many jokes. I never know when is good.

Joss Whedon

#27. They say the silence is the language of God, but so is music. This is why we dance, we become loud in our silence.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#28. I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.

Rabindranath Tagore

#29. No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.

Marcel Marceau

#30. You are the best of us. We are the best of you. What becomes of us will, inevitably, become of you. That is why you should care. That is why I write.
I end this chapter, then, with broken silence, broken vows, broken trust. Our secrets are yours now; I pray you use them well.

Donna Boyd

#31. A pause. It might have been pregnant. I've never been sure how to tell if a silence has conceived or not.

Lois Greiman

#32. There was a limit to how many insults a man could swallow in silence.

Robert Jordan

#33. You must show no mercy ... nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you ... for your greatness will silence them all.

The Ultimate Warrior

#34. My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#35. Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.

Donald Hall

#36. Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

Theodore Roosevelt

#37. Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.

Isaac Jogues

#38. Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#39. The nearer you approach to God, the less you reason and argue. When you attain Him, then all sounds - all reasoning and disputing - come to an end. Then you go into samadhi - sleep - , into communion with God in silence.

Ramakrishna

#40. Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Fuentes

#41. You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#42. Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

Nelly Mazloum

#43. My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.

Radka Donnell

#44. I'm exhausted from not talking.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

#45. The silence sucked his speech away.

Terry Pratchett

#46. Only a man of inner silences becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very creativity, their very silence, their very love, their very peace will be the only way to protect this beautiful planet.

Rajneesh

#47. And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.

Robert Scheer

#48. Writing is a product of silence.

Carrie Latet

#49. All those sounds of her failure and regret would be left behind, and in their place there would be silence.

Eowyn Ivey

#50. Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.

Ronnie Barker

#51. A pregnant pause with enough gestation can give birth to a well formed idea.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#52. But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.

S.D. Lawendowski

#53. I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

George Bernard Shaw

#54. Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still.

Caroline Emelia Stephen

#55. In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Dwight Yoakam

#56. In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

B.G. Bowers

#57. Of silence, I can say only what I have heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave
and so speech isn't itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.

Jesse Ball

#58. There's one thing I want you to do for me."
"Anything." He pleaded.
"When you're all alone, sitting in the silence behind bars, separated from your freedom. Ask yourself. Was it worth it?" She closed her eyes and pulled the trigger.

Michelle Umland

#59. It was a silence so deep, so still, that a man could finally hear the beating of his own heart, the gentle whispers of the soul.

Kamran Pasha

#60. The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

Simon Van Booy