Quotes about silence (1559 quotes, page 16)

“You are the pure magic of rediscovering the joy of loving, the effort of resisting you, the splendor of an affection born day after day in the silence of everyday life, which now shines with a violent and vital light that reflects on everything around me. All this... it's love for you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Sei la pura magia di ritrovare la gioia di amare, la fatica di resisterti, lo splendore di un affetto nato giorno dopo giorno nel silenzio della quotidianità, che ora splende di una luce violenta e vitale che si riflette su tutto ciò che mi sta intorno. Tutto questo... è amore per te.
Source: prevale.net

Light , Joy , Love , Life

“Silence is the best answer for those who do not want to understand.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Il silenzio è la miglior risposta a chi non vuol capire.
Source: prevale.net

Understanding

“Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.”

Diadochos of Photiki (400–486) Byzantine saint

§ 70
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

Time

“Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; or, as I might rather express it: speech is of time, silence is of eternity.”

Thomas Carlyle book Sartor Resartus

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden
Bk. III, ch. 3.
1830s, Sartor Resartus (1833–1834)

Time

“Win in silence. Let them think you’re losing.”

Settlemania (1999) Settlemania Is in Indian Video Content Creator and Social Media Expert

http://www.twitter.com/settlemania Twitter

Thinking

“Silence is deep as Eternity, Speech is shallow as Time.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

Time , Deep

“Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Parting , Peaceful

“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

Sleep , Wisdom

“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”

William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania

Sleep

“Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise.”

James Thomson (poet) (1700–1748) Scottish writer (1700-1748)

Source: Hymn (1730), line 118.

“I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Address to the Chicago Decalogue Society (20 February 1954)
1950s

Appearance , Feeling

“Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by

Life , Love

“Silence, is one of the most incisive answers.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Il silenzio, è una delle risposte più incisive.
Source: prevale.net

“We give voice to our trivial cares, but suffer enormities in silence”

Seneca the Younger Phaedra

Phaedra, line 607 https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/sen.phaedra.shtml
Tragedies
Original: (la) Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent.

Suffering

“Well, I remember!
I remember, don't worry
How could I ever forget?
It's the first time, the last time we ever met
But, I know the reason why you keep your silence up,
No you don't fool me.
The hurt doesn't show
But the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you and me.”

Phil Collins (1951) English musician, songwriter and actor

"In the Air Tonight"
Face Value (1981)

Hurt , Pain , Time , Forgetting

“Work hard in the silence to achieve your goals and levels. Because we are not the same with a good heart, some don't love you for who you're, and how you're. But success will show them everything, guide you and connect you with them later.”

Ayuel Monykuch (1997) South Sudanese Entrepreneur

Success , Heart , Love

“The policy of self-isolation and continuous silence are the greatest destroyers of marriage and relationship.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Marriage

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“My fingers are turning red, my nose is turning red, and that kind of cold, I was, of course, also unfamiliar with. And snow has always had an awe for me. The silence that takes over the world, and just. . . the absolute miracle of snow. I’ve never gotten over it, I have to confess.”

Shobha Rao

On her first exposure to winter in the United States in "Shobha Rao on Moving Between Cultures and Loving Little House on the Prairie" https://lithub.com/shobha-rao-on-moving-between-cultures-and-loving-little-house-on-the-prairie/ in LitHub (2018 Nov 19)

World

“Keep silence and do not always be comparing yourself with others.”

Poemen (340–450) Egyptian monk and desert father

Saying 79

“The victory over all the afflictions that befall you, is, to keep silence.”

Poemen (340–450) Egyptian monk and desert father

Saying 37

Affliction , Victory

“Free Speech Is Under Attack! Censorship is happening like NEVER before! Don’t let them silence us.”

Donald Trump Jr. (1977) American businessman and son of U.S. President Donald Trump

Source: 29 January 2021 tweet https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1355126188662898691
Context: Sign up at http:// DONJR.COM to stay connected! If I get thrown off my social platforms I’ll let you know my thoughts and where I end up!

“Please love by giving and by taking. Give and be given. If you are only giving and not taking, you’ll know. You’ll know from that small and true voice inside you that we females are so often socialized to silence. Don’t silence that voice. Dare to take.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) Nigerian writer

w:On Men, Love and Relationships
Source: https://sheleadsafrica.org/20-powerful-chimamanda-adichie-quotes-for-todays-boss-women/

Love

“However revolting to the feelings it may be to enter upon such a subject, it cannot be passed over in silence without a great violation of duty. Unhappily, it has not been hitherto exhibited in the awful light in which it deserves to be shown. The worst of it is that it is seldom suspected. There are many pale faces and languid and nervous feelings attributed to other causes, when all the mischief lies here.”

John Harvey Kellogg (1852–1943) American physician

Plain Facts For Old and Young
Source: Sir W. C. Ellis as qtd. on p. 318

Light , Feeling

“Social justice warriors who are fond of governing by hashtag like to say that silence is violence. And we know that because it rhymes.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Source: Sen. Chris Coons and Caitlin Flanagan, Natural Immunity, (2021)

Justice

“We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American president has been silenced”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Source: " Trump announces social media platform launch plan, SPAC deal https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/20/trump-announces-social-media-platform-launch-plan-spac-deal.html" (October 20, 2021)

World

“To every woman rising above the tradition of silence, walking tall in a marginalized system…May we be them; may we know them, may we birth them… We’ve got the power?”

Ini Edo (1982) Nollywood actress

Source: https://abtc.ng/actress-ini-edos-motivational-words-to-all-women-will-melt-your-heart/

Birth

“Few desire to know the truth of what is happening in our state’s abortion clinics. All of the outrage, all of the noise is directed at one thing: silencing the uncomfortable truth. It’s either willful ignorance or a decision to partner with the abortion industry. When I started in public office, I was intellectually pro-life, but now I have come to see that the life issue is truly the issue of our time. The depth of evil that exists to protect this lie prevents the states from protecting children. How we determine the answer to this issue is what will determine where our nation will end up. Unless the truth prevails, abortion will destroy us as a nation.”

Phill Kline (1959) American politician

Source: Ask the Attorney: An Interview with Former Kansas Attorney General and Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline http://lifelegalgiving.com/ask-the-attorney-an-interview-with-former-kansas-attorney-general-and-johnson-county-district-attorney-phill-kline/ (1 August 2009)

Decision , Life , Children , Truth

“[A]ttempting to organize and give structure to the study of legal silence has been a primary purpose of much of what I have written and taught over the past half-century.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Soundings and Silences (2016)

Study , Past

“[W]e should beware of "hearing" silences where nearly all readers, setting aside how they would like a particular controversy to end, identify determinative text... "The heart has its reasons," as Pascal famously said, "that reason does not know."”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Good enough. And those heartfelt reasons deserve a hearing. But when they defy reason, the meaning of living by the rule of law is that reason should prevail.
Soundings and Silences (2016)

Heart

“There are as many reasons to be silent as there are to speak, and as many ways to hear meaning in the sounds of silence.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Soundings and Silences (2016)

Way

“[C]onstitutional silences, like silences of other kinds, aren’t just occasional gaps or omissions in an otherwise-seamless design. They’re everywhere and come in as many flavors and varieties as sounds. Ambiguity and multiplicity of meanings are in a sense manifestations of silence.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Soundings and Silences (2016)

Sense

“[T]he "dormant Commerce Clause" [is] a set of unwritten constitutional principles limiting state commercial regulation in the face of congressional silence coupled with the Constitution’s delegation to Congress of the power to regulate interstate commerce.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Source: Soundings and Silences (2016)

“[M]uch of what our Supreme Court does involves filling in the "great silences of the Constitution"...”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Soundings and Silences (2016)

“"[C]onstitutional silence"... pervades all of constitutional law.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Soundings and Silences (2016)

Law

“Where in the lily lurks the mind,
Where in the rose discern the soul?More mindless still, stream, pasture, lake;
The mountains yet more heartless seem. […]It is their silence that appals,
Their aspect motionless that awes,
When searching spirit vainly calls
On the effect to bare the Cause.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

The Door of Humility (1906)
Source: "Switzerland", XXII, lines 15–18, 37–40; pp. 53–54.

Soul , Search , Mountain

“I will not be silent about something which it is not right to leave in silence lest I should inhumanly keep to myself what ought to be made known.”

John Climacus book The Ladder of Divine Ascent

4:110
The Ladder of Divine Ascent

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”

Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet

"Samuel Beckett Talks About Beckett" https://archive.vogue.com/article/1969/12/nobel-prize-winner-1969-samuel-beckett-talks-about-beckett, Vogue Magazine, 1969

“Silence is like starvation.”

Cherríe Moraga (1952) American writer

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Fourth Edition (2015)

“Beyond the confines of my tiny country, my words seem to count for little, just as the anguished cry of my people still astonishingly leaves you mute and deaf. So I will continue to write until the silence is pierced.”

Aslan Maskhadov (1951–2005) Chechen warlord

Excerpts of Open Letter to the Leaders Of G-7 Nations (2002)

Country , People , Cry

“Avoid the deafening noise of silence: incite thoughts by disfavouring action.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Evita l'assordante rumore del silenzio: incita i pensieri sfavorendo l'azione.
Source: prevale.net

“Creative people love solitude. It is essential, during a reflection or a creative moment, to have total silence around you, to confide the ideas of mind to your body.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Le persone creative amano la solitudine. È fondamentale, durante una riflessione o un momento creativo, avere intorno a sé un silenzio totale, per confidare al proprio corpo le idee della mente.
Source: prevale.net

Confidence , Idea , People , Solitude

“WITH THE EMBERS STILL BURNING:
The scientific community has done a pronounced amount of hand-wringing about its involvement in the atomic bomb’s creation, and a disproportionately absent amount of the soul-searching with respects to its creation of the science of eugenics. The 450,000 deaths due to the bomb are relatively small in the shadow of the many millions dead as a result of National Socialism’s eugenic campaign. The casualties of The Holocaust are the casualties of the science of eugenics, which so many scientists had actively campaigned for leading up to World War II. Yet, the scientific community has confronted its complicity with collective silence and sometimes outright censorship.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848

Soul , Search , Communication , Dead

“Silence is as bad as indifference, which is what makes injustice rampant.”

Titon Rahmawan

Indifference

“Speak, when all other voices are silenced!”

Titon Rahmawan

“Peace and equality will never be created if humans still use violence, silencing, and wrath.”

Titon Rahmawan

Peace

“In today's modern digital era, is it still possible for a government that tends to be tyrannical and despotic to silence voices that oppose it? I don't think so, because nowadays even a silenced voice can have a louder echo than the original voice.”

Titon Rahmawan

Thinking

“A trained mind knows when and how to express itself. It can be through words, expressions or even just silence.”

Titon Rahmawan

Training

“You are in my silences like a poet in search of words, like a sound in time with my heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Sei nei miei silenzi come un poeta in cerca di parole, come un suono a tempo col mio cuore.
Source: prevale.net

Time , Search , Heart

“We live in a world of illusions, where the wisest, in silence, witness an infinity of ridiculous actions.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Viviamo in un mondo di illusioni, dove i più saggi, in silenzio, assistono ad un'infinità di ridicole azioni.
Source: prevale.net

World

“Weights are never light, but I have learned to carry them in silence.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: I pesi non sono mai leggeri, ma ho imparato a portarli in silenzio.
Source: prevale.net

Light , Learning

This quote waiting for review.

“The Chilean silence is one of repression; the Mexican, of resignation.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

“Have a recognizable voice: find your authentic tone. Speak for those who cannot, for those who are afraid, for those who know how to be silenced. Be a beacon in the darkness for many people and beyond: always reach out and offer your heart where a true presence is needed.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Abbiate una voce riconoscibile: trovate il vostro tono autentico. Parlate per coloro che non possono farlo, per coloro che hanno paura, per coloro che sanno come essere messi a tacere. Siate un faro nell'oscurità per molte persone e oltre: tendete sempre la mano ed offrite il vostro cuore dove c'è bisogno di una presenza vera.
Source: prevale.net

People , Heart

“When you happen to have cried in silence, when everyone thinks that you are only strong, when you feel sometimes broken, sometimes crazy, sometimes wrong… you are not: you are just too true for a world that sometimes prefers falsehood. This is your gift.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Quando vi capita di aver pianto in silenzio, quando tutti pensano che siate solo forti, quando vi sentite a volte rotti, a volte pazzi, a volte sbagliati... non lo siete: siete solo troppo veri per un mondo che a volte preferisce la falsità. Questo è il vostro dono.
Source: prevale.net

Strong , Thinking , World , Feeling

This quote waiting for review.

“Power does not need to impose itself when it manages to pay you for your silence: a punctual paycheck is enough to make obedience seem like common sense.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: 1480AM. La Otra Historia. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Sense

This quote waiting for review.

“The right does not deny the disappeared detainees: it manages them as silence. For them, they are not absent bodies but obstacles already overcome; and upon that well-ordered grave they build their idea of a country.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. La Otra Historia. 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Country , Idea

This quote waiting for review.

“The UN’s silence in the face of Trump is the final stone in its own grave.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM. Guadalajara, Mexico.

“Mums are special beings. They are capable of rejoicing, but also to suffer in silence so as not to trouble the serenity of who they love most: own children. Always take care of them: mum is only one.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Le mamme sono esseri speciali. Sono capaci di gioire, ma anche di soffrire in silenzio per non turbare la serenità di chi amano di più: i propri figli. Abbiatene sempre cura: la mamma è solo una.
Source: prevale.net

Children , Suffering , Love

“Often the silence and human warmth of an embrace, communicate what words fail to express.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Spesso il silenzio e il calore umano di un abbraccio comunicano ciò che le parole non riescono ad esprimere.
Source: prevale.net

Communication

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