Silence Quotes

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

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.

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

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

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

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.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty and encourages you to live life more courageously and genuinely.

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

I learnt silence from the talkative

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.

Experience yourself in silence.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

Silence can never be misquoted.

Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

Silence is like a flame, you see?

They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

I also have two children under three who keep me up all night and don't seem to understand the benefits of sitting in silence, which has presented an interesting challenge.

Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.

Silence gives consent.

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.