Silence Quotes

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.

A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.

...science and violence turned silence to rage.

People don't like silence, so they'll keep talking to fill the void.

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.

Silence makes me feel vulnerable.

What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a very loud atmosphere, it's something about 70 decibels.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.

I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.

It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

The Divine flow that wants to move through me requires stillness.

After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)

Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts.

When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.

You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.

As the kundalini energy increases, as the energy of the psyche becomes more pronounced, which it does as thought becomes eclipsed by silence, all the variant mind states burn away.

When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?

The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.

Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.

Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

Talk is only silence that ain't workin' well.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]

At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!

Freedom is the silence of the law.

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

Silence not only lets you listen but to see things with much more clarity than you ever can.

At times we feel something is going to pierce the silence we are living in; after a while we realize it's the silence.

[John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him utter three Sentences together."