Silence Quotes

...there are times when silence is a poem.

Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self

When sounds of the world around you vanish, what is left but screaming silence.

Silent people are those who have too much to say

To Hear What Silence Is Saying, You Must Have Inner Peace. A Violent Mind Can’t Understand It....

Silence is the best defence for any argument.

when the presence is like thunderstorm, the absence prevail deep dark silence.

Silence is an arguement hard to refute

...what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave.

It's a silence I know. The kind that's actually a sound so loud your brain doesn't know how to interpret it at first.

I love the smell of my mother’s hair after she washes it.I love the feel of the scratchy stubble on my father’s face before he shaves.But I’ve never been able to tell them.

There was silence in her head and silence beneath her window, and still she could not sleep.

nothing is lifelesswhen the moon writes its screedon the silvern sand silence-From the poem:"The Universe In Blossom

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.

Every time you walk lonely, you get a very special gift: The silence!

And the wind falls silent, and the birds fall silent, and the wild cherry trees no longer shiver and creek.

[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

the silence of God is God.

When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.

...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.

A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

Silence is fine if I am on my own but it's not overly sociable if my husband is around!

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit.

But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat.

The most deafening sound in all creation, is the sound of absolute silence.

Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.

Anything that breaks silence is music...!

There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.

I would swear that I could practically hear crickets in the ensuing silence, if not for the fact that the stale air probably kills anything that requires oxygen to breathe.

Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair.

They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable they were of breaking it.

The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.

When one is silent, those around speak even more, my lord.

The silence leans forward.

In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.

Writing is a product of silence.

To write, ” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves.

I had lots of good intentions but I wasted them on people who didn't deserve them...

In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence("Roundness")

Silence is the door of consent.

Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words.

How small life is hereand how big nothingness.The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow.The two trees bowtheir heads to each other.Clouds cross the world’ssilence in a circle dance

...when your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important.

Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.