Quotes about silence

A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous wills while the soul is left in cold and desolate misery. What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.

Physical labour may be painful, but it is not degrading as such. It is not art; it is not science; it is something else, possessing an exactly equal value with art and science, for it provides an equal opportunity to reach the impersonal stage of attention.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

"What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?"

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied — it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

The best way to describe silence is to say nothing—but what grace!

People revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence of a person who never speaks.

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn't hear a thing. The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for the good it did me.

“What’s that all about?” Golden said to his wife, a rhetorical question. She looked at him and said nothing, a non-rhetorical answer.

You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.

To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.

The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

To hear, one must be silent.