Quotes of: Great-silence Keyword

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

Great House

Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.

Lover Eternal

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

Sever

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence.

This Book Has No Title

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughin...

Steve Harvey

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent...

Aldous Huxley

The dead worry the living because their silence reminds us how little the great comedies and tragedies in our lives matter and how little the universe would care if we'd never lived at all.” -- Nara

Jordan MacLean

Obi-Wan: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

Star Wars

Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

Walter Murch

We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.

Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature & the Inhuman

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

Om Chanting and Meditation

Speech is silver. Silence is golden.

SBYudhoyono

The silence of the people is a warning for the king.

French

Only the dumb can silence the chatterer.

Georgian

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

German

Talking is silver, silence is golden.

Hebrew

Silence makes irritation grow.

Japanese

Unspoken words are the flowers of silence.

Japanese

The fruit of silence is tranquillity.

Saudi Arabian