Silence Quotes

But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

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.

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

The two heart-grey puddles: two mouthsfull of silence.

Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

The best apology against false accusers is silence.

There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

Some of the worst elements of Guyland rest on the twin pillars of men's silence and women's compliance.

To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.

We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

Passion is overcome only by him who has won through stillness of spirit the perfect vision; it comes through the contentment that is regardless of the world.

Growth takes place in a person by working at a deep inner level in a sustained atmosphere of silence.

Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.

When silence reaches an ultimate point, the light penetrates everywhere.

Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.

That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.