Silence Quotes

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

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

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing

In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.

Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence with pride and honor.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.

Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.

I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

True silence is the speech of lovers.

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

Dare, will, keep silence.

If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?

Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.

Take some time off to go within, in silence. With that, your charm becomes eternal, your love becomes unconditional & great strength arises.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.