Silence Quotes

The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal...

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn...

the siren song/called silence

Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say.

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inn...

To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones hold...

the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone....

Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a...

All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

Stars open among the lilies.Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?This is the silence of...

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spentIf the unheard, unspokenWord is unspoken, unhear...

Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat...

Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws o...

When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's ...

Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.

May my silences become more accurate.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Silence is deep as Eternity speech shallow as Time.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may em...

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent

SilenceTHERE is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In t...

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.

You see how I live: shadows and silence, leaving things as I find them because I have no reason to d...

What is this life! you cry out. Only silence answers, and it is eloquent. Shining eyes open in the d...

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without th...

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own be...

The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound dra...

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're ...

Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctivel...

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big citi...

…he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood a...

Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by...

I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How woul...

A kind of silence, if I may say, was walking through the house, and, like most silence, it was not s...

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

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...