Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
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).
What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
...the regions where there is only life, and therefore all that is not music is silence.
I feel you move me
in such sweet silence
always dancing, always dancing
never ever getting tired
"Silence is among the doors to wisdom; it brings about love and is a proof of all good things.":151
We've been conditioned to avoid silence at all costs lest we be confronted with our own inner chaos.
'I've lived in silence and denial for 22 years and I can't spend another moment in that.'
Silence. Stillness. To give her soul a chance to attend its own affairs at its own level.
"Enough people in the world trying to silence us. Girl, you better speak up.” (p238)
Once they were in the colony there was almost total silence about their lives.
I am a rape and incest survivor and I'm a very strong proponent of breaking the silence.