Silence Quotes

My only two weapons: time and silence.

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.

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

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

Winter invites white; white invites silence; silence invites peace. You see, there is so much peace in walking on the snow!

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

As was his language so was his life.

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.

Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.

Go where there is silence and say something.

Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.

The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me.

Right now, I would like complete silence when I'm talking.

The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language.

But silence is where victims dwell.

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

Jon Davis was a fan and came out on stage with us somewhere in the Midwest and came out in a Suicide Silence shirt and a kilt and did his thing.

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.

Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

He hears the silence howling catches angels as they fall, and the all time winner has got him by the fun.

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma.