Silence Quotes

Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

Silence is a source of great strenght.

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.

Summer makes a silence after spring.

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.

Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

Never be bullied into silence.

The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

Sun, silence, and happiness.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.

Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

Joy is not dependent on circumstances; it is your own. It is not a titillation produced by things; it is a state of peace, of silence-a meditative state. It is spiritual.