top of page
.png){kind=small}
"We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Silence quotes
"When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I'm silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination."
"Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!"
"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."
"Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don't have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!"
"Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?"
"I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun."
"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."
Explore more quotes by Alfred Jarry
"The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character."
"It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty."
"Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men."
"Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations."
bottom of page