Silence Quotes

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

History, is a conscious, self-meditating process — Spirit emptied out into Time; but this externaliz...

I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful o...

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his lov...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere ...

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass g...

Silence is a prince's friend.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it ...

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and u...

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this cou...

On days when it was too hot, they did not leave their room. The dazzling brilliance from outside pla...

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of thos...

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition ...

It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it.....The silence seemed to be tr...

The silence is so deep it hurts our ears

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that ...

A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, e...

Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a ...

I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr...

Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in h...

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, ther...

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to o...

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the un...

He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mista...

The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all...

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and t...

I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to...

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant vo...

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,Only a signal shown and a distant voic...

Thy silence, then that voices thee.

There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited...

Silence is also a form of speaking. They’re exactly alike. It’s a basic component of language. We’re...

Silence is also a form of speaking.

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using wor...

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better,...

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervatin...

In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.

She knew very well that people fell out, even stormily, and then made up. But she did not know how t...

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait '...

The proper use of language, for me personally, is one that enables us to approach things (present or...

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

In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have...

[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our e...

Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going...

I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shel...

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to...

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: t...

You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I...

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...

…each found her greatest safety in silence…

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.

Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside...

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Only he who knows how to speak can be silent.

I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them.

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those thi...

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or h...

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. ...

In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was no...

But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years ...

It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can exper...

Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe l...

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is...

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reac...

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. M...

You don't have to say anything if you don't want to."Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my sh...

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables wh...

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, ...

A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence...

A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence...

Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you.

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; ...

I went to a concert upstairs in Town Hall. The composer whose works were being performed had provide...

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, somethi...

She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands.'You're bei...

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

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

He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked.- "Nothing" he said.- "Why are you looking ...

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness....

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sou...

First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be...

He has the gift of quiet.

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.