Silence Quotes

Silence kills scandal.

I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.

Remember what peace there may be in silence.

Things that are real are given and received in silence.

When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?

If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.

A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.

I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!

Real creativity comes only out of silence.

We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.

A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence.

Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?

As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.

Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.

Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.

May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.

Whose silence are you?

True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.

The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

The way to become boring is to say everything.

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.