Silence Quotes

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

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

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

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

Never be bullied 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.

My feelings for you shame me into 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.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

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

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

Silence is safer than speech.

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

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.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

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

When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

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

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

I'm exhausted from not talking.

He has the gift of quiet.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.

I love your silences, they are like mine.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.

There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.]

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.