“After Mboya, Kenya’s official languages: English, Kiswahili, and Silence. There was also memory.”
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).
When silence reaches an ultimate point,
the light penetrates everywhere. (p. 26)
she talked less, or at least did less of the kind of talking whose only purpose was to fill silence
they flock and they flee through the thunder of seem
though the stars in their silence
say Be
we were only made for the little silence, not for the silence of the stars.
"WHAT?! YOU FFFFFFFfffffff…" [Silence.] "…I just lost. I just lost…!"
I've decided that enough is enough... I will not be silenced anymore,"