Silence Quotes

Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.

Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

Go into seclusion and rest your mind on the silence.

You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.

Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.

It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.

Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

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.]

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I love your silences, they are like mine.

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.

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.

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

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

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

Silence is often advantageous.

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still.

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth's silence lives, and throbs, and sings.

It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.