Silence Quotes
But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.
You should learn to say nothing that will cause you regret. You should not say what is not in your heart - or what is only in your heart for a moment. But you know this - silence is better.
Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.
Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.
Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.
As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.
If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.
Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.
Silence is not an effective political strategy, and what we do if we silence the public interest, which is so hard to hear anyway, is that we silence ourselves and then we do not have a democracy.
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.
What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.
There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.
Sometimes silence is the most effective tool to make impact, and sometimes loud and big is the trick.
I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the glut of words.
People keep planning their lives searching security and comfort. This silence is the only security I know those who can understand will understand.
Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
