Silence Quotes

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.

The friend of silence comes close to God.

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence 'til something clicks and I feel a right answer.

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

to hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance

Even five minutes spent in silence will nurture and revive your soul and spirit.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!

You can't improve on saying nothing.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.

Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

I have an appetite for silence.

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.