Silence Quotes

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

Silence is often advantageous.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

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.

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.

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

Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.

All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

Of all the sounds that touch my soul these days, the most beautiful one of all is silence.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.