Silence Quotes

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

True silence is really endless speech.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

My love, I fear the silence of your hands.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.

Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

Silence is also conversation.

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.

Silence, and non action are the root of all things.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

All the great pleasures of life are silent.

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

To restore silence is the role of objects.

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

Your silence will not protect you.

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

Love is a sacred silence.

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.

Do not speak - unless it improves on silence.

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.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.