Silence Quotes

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.

The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

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.

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

I go scuba diving. I ski. Watch movies. I take a week of silence every three months in the wilderness. And, besides, I have fun all the time anyway.

Silence, nothing is better.

If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.

Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.

Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

A person truly evolves from his own silence and one such can keep the people around him in the awe of silence.

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.

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

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.

It takes some silence to make sound.

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

If you dont have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.

The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks.

Meditation is the action of silence.

Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

The worst part was the silence. Death was supposed to be loud — gunshots, explosions, screams and thunder. Not this eerie quiet that wrapped around me like a shroud.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

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

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy.

You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

Some people suffer in silence louder than others.

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable.

Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.

You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

A warrior of light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him.

She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North.