Silence Quotes

And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.

Silence creates it's own violence.

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God

Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

My mom told me that I should trust the man who could see the sorrow behind my smile, the love behind my anger, and the reasons behind my silence.

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.

I like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.

When NBC told me I got the job, I asked, 'Can we do it from New York?' There was just silence on the phone

And all that we built, and all that we breathed And all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me.

When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.

You know what, I'll suffer in silence.

He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself.

In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

I said, names aren't important," he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?" Will shook his head. "Supper is important!

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

Breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves, in silence sleep!

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

I like the way you can stretch things out and leave a huge amount of space that, on a record, would feel like silence. I enjoy the possibilities.

"Silence Of The Lambs" is definitely very frightening.

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

I continued to protect him with my silence.

As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment of silence' is a deafening roar to a nonbeliever.

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?

Privilege does not operate without silence.

Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.

At least if I keep my love a secret, he and I can still have this wonderful, odd, exciting relationship where I love him in silence and pretend he's loving me in silence too.

The sound of life has divine silence.

The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.

The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much.

When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.

But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.