Silence Quotes

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.

The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

Silence is the cornerstone of character.

Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more we become capable of singing that great song.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.

Create, artist, do not talk.

Hushed as midnight silence.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

Silence is the mother of truth.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

Friendship needs no words.

Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.