Silence Quotes

He seemed not to know the uses of silence.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.

We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and s...

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the sol...

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she o...

All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ...

All the rest is silenceOn the other side of the wall;And the silence ripeness,And the ripeness all.

The silence was enchanting. Infinite space seemed to enter it, and my spirit, alone with the stars, ...

[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneli...

If there must be a god in the house, must be,Saying things in the rooms and on the stair,Let him mov...

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,And accrue what I hear into myself...and let so...

This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day ...

Tell them I came, and no one answered,That I kept my word," he said.Never the least stir made the li...

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way ...

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent...

Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

We sit and talk,quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language...

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment an...

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

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Four billion people on this earthbut my imagination is still the same.It's bad with large numbers.It...

When I pronounce the word Future,the first syllable already belongs to the past.When I pronounce the...

All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. ...

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - ...

But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of...

Silence can be a planrigorously executedthe blueprint to a lifeIt is a presenceit has a history a fo...

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was...

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud...

In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, a...

They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the m...

At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the ...

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the se...

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something but by refrainin...

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply...

Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genu...

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the hear...

The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shu...

Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol. It is the entire cosmos, whatever we c...

Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remai...

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and exter...

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts...

Men fear silence as they fear solitude because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's not...

I defendNot my voice, but my silence

And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer,And again there was silence, and again the ghos...

I've ceased to smile long ago, The bitter winds now chill my lips, Another hope was just let go, Ano...

In the woods it was not so much that it was quiet as that the few sounds were loud and distinct, not...

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co...

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

Small, red, and upright he waited,gripping his new bookbag tightin one hand and touching a lucky pen...

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries ...

The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is.

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were n...

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be...

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into ...

There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish ...

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the pr...

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is wher...

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made ve...

I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not pr...

We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are distorted and destroyed,...

and when we speak we are afraidour words will not be heardnor welcomedbut when we are silentwe are s...

I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to ...

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken,...

Then the silence came back, that awful silence that seemed to just take over.In that silence I kept ...

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we ...

What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. Yo...

There are so many different forms of silence: the silence that tyrannical states force on their citi...

It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can ...

Silence is the mother of truth.

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a dive...

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men belie...

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovednes...

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise...

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost ...

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father...

Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in s...

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too lon...

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn fr...