Silence Quotes

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it

A fence to wisdom is silence.

I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

Only silence perfects silence.

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

Music is the framework around the silence.

Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.

Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while you see... a little while you are dancing.

I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

The very first part in healing is shattering the silence.

I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

Don't misinterpret God's silence as rejection.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Each day, each noise I gather explodes, leaving me to death; to rest in the solace of silence & to be re-born.

Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.

If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.