I can’t give over my life to silence in the name of an avoidance of pain
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).
Silence is complicity. It’s complicity. We cannot remain silent.
Nun 2: (Very quietly) Sir, be grateful for the music. Most of us die in silence.
Big Tech is censoring Experts and suppressing the CURE. I will not be silenced.
In Jerusalem, even the silence speaks. In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower
"Maybe it has quick save?" [Silence.] "…No. Of—Of course, that would be asking too much."
She went for so long without talking that silence became a habit.