In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I pricked up my ears, like an animal I imagine, which gives a start and pretends to be dead.

Samuel Beckett
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Silence is the mother of truth. - Benjamin Disraeli

  2. Silence is a powerful tool. - Na

  3. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. - Napoleon Hill

  4. In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75) - Swami Satchidananda

  5. The more silent is my mind, The more it speaks; Wisdom is a light divine, And its shadow a mystique! - Neelam Saxena Chandra

More Quotes By Samuel Beckett
  1. You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

  2. The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

  3. No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  4. The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

  5. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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