Silence Quotes

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

Being a lady does not require silence.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

Silence is the only Voice of our God.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.

Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.

We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

Silence is sometimes the best answer

... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.

Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

May my silences become more accurate.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

My only two weapons: time and silence.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

There was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

If you make time for silence, the sacred will unfold.

Skies are crying, I am watching, Catching teardrops in my hands. Only silence, as it's ending, Like we never had a chance. Do you have to make me feel Like there's nothing left of me?