Silence Quotes
Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.
But sometimes, things are better to just hear. Some questions better left unasked. Some words better left unsaid. Because saying them doesn’t make you matter any less.
We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.
Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.
The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.
I always thought I was an extrovert until I became a theatre major. Then I realised I just didn't like silence.
The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.
Connection with yourself only comes in moments of silence.
Peace is the friend we find in silence.
Often the most effective statement we can make in a noisy world is to say nothing at all. Don't waste your words over something or to someone who deserves silence.
He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.
The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.
If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...
In silence there is a perfection which any toil injures.
In my silence do I enhance my talents
sometimes being silent is the best way to appreciate the moment
Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.
He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud.
Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.
There’s comfort in hearing a voice when the world is silent.
It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back
They still didn’t talk on the bus, but it had become a less confrontational silence. Almost friendly. (But not quite.)
Wheels turning, the motorcycle’s roar grows steady, which, too, is a form of silence.
Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in the fantasy.
What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread
The silence, she thought, was remarkable: a perfect, shimmering thing, and fragile. Like glass, if it shattered, it would never come back together again.
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence, ' he finally told me.
M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men.
The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence.
You would do well to guard your tongue, lest it be stricken from you.
It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..
It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.
silence was never lost, she just had to stop screaming long enough to hear it:.
Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.
On a ship, knowing when to be silent is just as important as knowing when to speak.
Maybe they hurt so much that the only way they can say it, is to say nothing