Silence Quotes

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.

As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

Strong leaders are harassed, imprisoned or assassinated, which are great deterrents if you want to silence a firebrand and suppress a revolt.

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

Listen into the silences where the best words begin.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind.

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

All those layers of silence upon silence.

Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.

When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.

One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

Silence is so freaking loud

I like peace and solitude and silence.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.