Silence Quotes

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remai...

From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insenti...

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.The gray area between yes a...

...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who we...

Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in vie...

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly di...

There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in ve...

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing syst...

Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fa...

Skies are crying,I am watching,Catching teardrops in my hands.Only silence, as it's ending,Like we n...

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience g...

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his ...

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of ...

From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out ...

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying th...

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander,...

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. S...

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose...

Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeli...

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their result...

I never spoke — unless addressed —And then, 'twas brief and low —I could not bear to live — aloud —T...

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so...

There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the z...

The thing that seemed like silence must have been the endless cry of all the crickets and locusts in...

And it was so still. The silence of the fields seemed to enter and move familiarly through the house...

Your very silence shows you agree.

She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose ...

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

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.

...And suddenly, from behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt arrival of the office boy. I feel ...

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkn...

You misinterpret everything, even the silence.

Silence promotes the presence of God, prevents many harsh and proud words, and suppresses many dange...

The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terr...

[W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much.

On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the ...

A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the ...

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...