Silent Quotes - Page 40

• I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

  Henry Rollins

  Tired, Talking, Want

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.323, Villard

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• Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Silence, Poisonous, Silence Is

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.143, Penguin

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• And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.

  Khalil Gibran

  Memories, Years, Yesterday

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

  Washington Irving

  Adversity, Innocent, Hours

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.230

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• The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spirituality, Subtle, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.173, Vintage

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• More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. All my days I have watched it and listened to it, and I know it well. At first it told to me only the plain little tales of calm beaches and near ports, but with the years it grew more friendly and spoke of other things; of things more strange and more distant in space and time.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Beach, Ocean, Book

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.953, Ageless Reads

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• If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.

  Josef Pieper

  Fall, Taken, Ambition

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

  Emma Goldman

  Jail, May, Thrown

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.107, PM Press

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• Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

  Alan Watts

  Water, Mind, Trying

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• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teacher, Book, Sea

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• It is better to be silent and be real than to talk and not be real.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Real, Being Real

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• Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

  George Henry Lewes

  Quiet, Speak

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Silent Films, Play, Watches

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Leader, Agendas

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• The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.

  Peter Camejo

  Running, Thinking, People

  "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.

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• I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mean, Humanity, Trying

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• Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

  Thornton Wilder

  Self, Quiet

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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• If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.

  Mark Russell

  Quiet, Audience, Ifs

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• As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?

  David Ogilvy

  Passion, Dark, Moon

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• Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.

  Toussaint Louverture

  Character, Enemy, Needs

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• In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host. Be assiduous in the prayer of adoration and teach it to the faithful. It is a source of comfort and light, particularly to those who are suffering.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Prayer, Holy Eucharist

  Address by the Holy Father during pastoral visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI in Poland at the meeting with the clergy, w2.vatican.va. May 25, 2006.

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• The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.

  Heinrich Heine

  Long, People, Insulting

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• Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Self, Listening

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• Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

  May Sarton

  Life, Music, Flower

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love and loyalty to Jesus will make you watchful and swift to rise up and cast out the subtle enemy. Do this and you shall live, and live victoriously.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Love, Christian, Loyalty

  Samuel Logan Brengle (1929). “Ancient Prophets: With a Series of Occasional Papers on Modern Problems”

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