Action Quote by Joan Didion

I think the myth about the 'silent generation' is just that, a myth.

— David Dellinger

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they…

— Christoph Martin Wieland

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for…

— Nicole Krauss

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has…

— Azar Nafisi

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns…

— Luigi Russolo

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

— Anton Yelchin

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never…

— Luther Standing Bear

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

— Julius Lester

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

— Norman Maclean

If people were silent, nothing would change.

— Malala Yousafzai

The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There…

— Cheikh Anta Diop

A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no…

— Marguerite Duras