Silence Quotes

May your voice be loving enough to silence your own fears.

There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.

I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.

Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music. My definition of music is "organizing sound and silence into emotion," and that's a very broad definition.

I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]

Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.

I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.

Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. "How are we going to kill these people, Peeta?

I press my ear against his chest, to the spot where I always rest my head, where I know I will hear the strong and steady beat of his heart. Instead, I find silence.

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.

Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.

Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.

We can't leave the internet to the bullies. You deserve to speak out and be heard just as much as the next man. Don't let bullies silence you. Support others, and make sure you look after yourself.

Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

Thought will not work except in silence.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

The very presence of an angel is communication. Even when an angel crosses your path in silence, God has said to us, I am here. I am present in your life.

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.

Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence.

At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,And void the places where the minstrels stood,Differs in nought from what hath been before,And is nor ill nor good.