Quotes of: Silencing Keyword

The handless clock trying to hold the hour of death, salt in the last mouthful of water. The windows opaque with silence, silence stagnating in the wineglass.

Hydrologos

The day was so wonderful that Bonaventure thought it would taste like cherry pie if he took a bite of it.

The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow

Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.

Memory of Water

Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.

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

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall; And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's the Tempest

The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.

The Quotable Thoreau

There was silence in her head and silence beneath her window, and still she could not sleep.

Unspoken

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

The Wise Man's Fear

The most painful emotions are better than none at all. Ironically, we make you human.

Where Silence Gathers

I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid.

Matthew Donnelly

Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man’s flying to the land of silence.

Mehmet Murat ildan

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Simon Wiesenthal

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

Stanley Hauerwas

It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.

Gary Busey

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

Dejan Stojanovic

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

Eduardo Galeano

Clarice Starling: Where are you, Dr. Lecter? Hannibal Lecter: I've no plans to call on you, Clarice. The world is more interesting with you in it.

The Silence of the Lambs

Dr. Frederick Chilton: We've tried to study him, of course, but he's much too sophisticated for the standard tests.

The Silence of the Lambs

Hannibal Lecter: You fly back to school, now, little Starling. Fly, fly, fly...

The Silence of the Lambs