Top Silence Quotes
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali
William Dean Howells 
Samuel Butler 
Cybill Shepherd 
Al Roker 
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Harvey Fierstein 
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If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Joyce Carol Oates 
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
Alejandro Amenabar
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
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After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
Mason Cooley
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
Lech Walesa
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Popular Silence Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldHenry David ThoreauGeorge Bernard ShawMason CooleyBenjamin FranklinSamuel JohnsonMarcus Tullius CiceroThomas JeffersonSamuel ButlerBenjamin DisraeliThomas Carlyle Plato SophoclesAbraham LincolnFrancis Bacon
Blaise PascalGeorge EliotAlbert CamusMartin Luther King, Jr.Aldous HuxleyRobert Louis StevensonKahlil GibranEmile M. Cioran AeschylusElbert HubbardCharles Caleb ColtonLao TzuJosh BillingsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Confucius
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