Silent Quotes

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.

What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps.

I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

The freedom to speak is meaningless without the corollary freedom to keep silent.

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

You are most powerful when you are most silent.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.

The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

Real action is in silent moments.

If people were silent, nothing would change.

At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality.

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

A sky full of silent suns.

Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.

I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet.

I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.