SILENCE QUOTES IV

quotations about silence

Shutting the f*** up is seldom a bad move.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Cerulean Sins

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Still-born Silence! thou that art
Floodgate of the deeper heart.

RICHARD FLECKNOE

Poems

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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

MUHAMMAD ALI

attributed, The Gospel According to ESPN

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Silence should be cultivated as a great virtue; it keeps secrets and avoids disputes.

WALTER MATTHEWS

Human Life from Many Angles


Silence is golden, so they say. Except that silence, in a moral dilemma, represents complicity, as it does in a general legal -- or in a criminal -- matter. We are thus, presuming that we are moral beings, faced with a binary choice: remain silent or speak out. Each choice has consequences, and the path followed, its own implications.

ALAIN TSCHUDIN

"When silence is not golden", News 24, August 6, 2017


Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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In silence you can't hide anything ... as you can in words.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

The Ghost Sonata

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Your silence will not protect you.

AUDRE LORDE

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches


Just suffer in silence, speak no bitter words.
The world offers no sympathy.
Though trouble surrounds you, an' you long to be heard,
Just suffer in silence, like me.
I'll give you a lesson in living,
And I hope it stays with you a while.
You're the reason for all of your sorrows,
So just suffer in silence, and smile.

WILLIE NELSON

"Suffering in Silence"


There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave--under the deep, deep sea,
Or in wide desert where no life is found,
Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound.

THOMAS HOOD

"Silence"

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Many a fine sermon doth Nature preach on the ever-new, forever-transgressed text of silence. It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning; and gravity, which bindeth worlds together and keepeth them from falling asunder, is ever silent. Prettily, too, doth the silent snow cover the ground, and make it like unto a table spread for a feast: unlike the noisy rain, which, after making a goodly number of puddles, quickly runneth off.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


So scream your heart out
You are the chosen
You got to show them
Silence is the enemy
Scream it out loud
We are the broken
We got to show them
Silence is the enemy

PAPA ROACH

"Silence Is the Enemy"


You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law.

U. S. POLICE OFFICERS

Miranda Warning


About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus

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To be silent oft is to learn.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,
And the silence of the city when it pauses,
And the silence of a man and a maid,
And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

EDGAR LEE MASTERS

Silence


Silence is true wisdom's reply.

ANONYMOUS


There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

STANISLAW JERZY LEC

Unkempt Thoughts


My silence will convict me.

REFUSED

"Last Minute Pointer"


Silence is silence -- though it may speak volumes.

JOHN MCTERNAN

"Why Big Ben's silence upsets so many Brits", CNN, August 21, 2017