Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.
Silence Quotes
Silence is a topic where the shortest lines do best. Wittgenstein’s “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” closes the Tractatus (1922), and de Gaulle, in Le Fil de l’épée (1932), says nothing builds up authority like silence. Longfellow’s Evangeline (1847) has sorrow and silence both strong, with patient endurance godlike.
Two sayings are credited to Publilius Syrus and marked disputed: that he has often regretted his speech and never his silence, and that one should be silent or say something better than silence. “Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise” is credited to Anatole France and flagged misattributed. The notes trace it to an eighteenth-century poem, Bernard de Bonnard’s “Le Silence,” in the Almanach des Muses (1776).
Sometimes, silence works more intensely than a bayonet to slay a tender heart.
The moment of silence stretched out as thin as the content of a congressman’s speech.
Specific silences imposed by certain historical conjunctions.
Attempt to grasp, with the creative imagination, the past and its silences.
We know that we are exposing ourselves to danger, but silence would be even more dangerous.
"Literature creates a space where silence can finally begin to speak."
Is it worth it for society to lose that value when society asks for that person’s silence?
Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour
Friendliest to sleep and silence.
With a stiff forefinger I silenced the koto music. Peace flooded in; the world thanked me.