Silence Quotes

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

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.

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.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

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.

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

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!

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.

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.

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.

God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.

The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

It takes some silence to make sound.

The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things.

Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

He had on bunny slippers. These had fangs. They all stared at them in silence for about a heartbeat, and then Shane said, "That is impressively wicked. Crazy, but wicked.

Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

Silence, nothing is better.