Silence Quotes

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.

All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise!

Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!

There is always a melancholic silence before entering every New Year!

Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too.

When you walk, try to think nothing! You can then obtain the silence of a streetlight or a bridge; stop thinking; after that, you become all you see!

Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.

The beginning of prayer is silence.

In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

In Dance and Music, Silence swims to reach our soul.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight by the other's silence.

But even in the schoolyard I'd been aware of that silence, that reserve in him, as though he'd been raised by foxes and language was his second language.

Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust.

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose.

The silences express so much and are so crucial in music, and prose does not allow for the creation of these silences, these white spaces on the page or the computer screen.

There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside

The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?

There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.

Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence

If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.