Silence

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
Elayne Boosler
Comedy
Key
Silence
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
Nellie Bly
Body
Madness
Silence
I love silence.
Brenda Blethyn
Love
Silence
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings
Arguments
Silence
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
Isaiah Berlin
Men
People
Ideas
First
Silence
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett
Nothingness
Silence
Word
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett
Nothing
Silence
Writing
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.
Samuel Beckett
Silence
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
Daniel Barenboim
End
Silence
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
Daniel Barenboim
Beginning
Silence
Sound
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
Faith Baldwin
Communication
Silence
Talking
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
Wisdom
Silence
Sleep
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon
Virtue
Fools
Silence
Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
Emanuel Ax
Applause
End
Silence
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen
Politics
Silence