Silence Quotes
The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.
We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.
Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.
Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.
It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.
In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.
Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.
There're people all over the world that have access to Suicide Silence because of the internet and everyone that listens to you has a better chance to paying to see you play.
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.
I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.
