Silence Quotes

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

What we can't speak, we say in silence.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.

Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

Expediency often silences justice.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

The purpose of sound is silence.

There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

In Silence there is eloquence.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

Come, drink the mystic wine of Night, Brimming with silence and the stars; While earth, bathed in this holy light, Is seen without its scars.

What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.

Silence has never brought us anything of worth.

Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.