Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
William Rose Benet
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
Isaiah Berlin
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings
And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles... →
George Washington Cable
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we... →
Albert Camus
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
Silence is more eloquent than words.