Silence Quotes

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.

When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.

The landscapist lives in silence.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

Real action is in silent moments.

And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.

Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.

The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.

There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But whenmankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.