Silence Quotes

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

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

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.

What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?

Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.

Only cowards hide behind silence.

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

There are times when I have to take, I call it a “silence bath,” where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.

Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak

Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

Sometimes you must leave everything and refresh yourself in the silence of a misty lake! Every such refreshment will give you an opportunity to make a long jump on the way to your target!

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.