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Silence Quotes by Samuel Beckett
- Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
- Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
- Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go…
- I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
- Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
- I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
- To restore silence is the role of objects.
- Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one…
- I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all…
- POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.
- ...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go…
More Silence Quotes
- I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. — Karen Armstrong
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. — Francis Bacon
- Silence is the virtue of fools. — Francis Bacon
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac
- First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil
- Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. — Samuel Beckett
- Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. — Samuel Beckett
- My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around… — Adele
- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley