Top Silences Quotes
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
Elizabeth Bowen
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
Audre Lorde
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
Elliott Carter
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Honore De Balzac
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Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck 
86% of people like this quote
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
Audre Lorde
56% of people like this quote
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
Elliott Carter
54% of people like this quote
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
Honore De Balzac
50% of people like this quote
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Samuel Beckett
48% of people like this quote
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
Mary Webb
45% of people like this quote
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
Mason Cooley
40% of people like this quote