Famous quotes containing the word silent:
“Pity the man who has a character to supportit is worse than a large familyhe is silent poor indeed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the periods official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was mans fate.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)
“Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows
When, after death, mans honor is his guard.
So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie,
Shall live, for all thats noblest will survive.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)