Silence Quotes

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

Why are we so afraid of silence? Teenagers cannot study without their records; they walk along the s...

Hey Meg! Communication implies sound. Communion doesn't.' He sent her a brief image of walking silen...

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Her...

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that...

Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the s...

Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the...

I dined with Legrandin on the terrace of his house by moonlight. "There is a charming quality, is th...

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. P...

There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwar...

Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like paste...

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the wh...

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers...

The pause - that impressive silence that eloquent silence that geometrically progressive silence w...

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to ...

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words an...

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whis...

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain ...

By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence ...

Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], s...

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one ...

When once misfortune enters a house, silence is in vain.

And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we st...

It is a thing that knows no limit, and before it all men are equal; and the silence of king or slave...

As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the w...

If I tell some one that I love him – as I may have told a hundred others – my words will convey noth...

Have we,” asks Claude de Saint-Martin, the great ‘unknown philosopher,’ “have we advanced one step f...

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ......

It is the disaster of our entire existence that we live thus away from our soul, and stand in such d...

… it is that such of us as have loved deeply have learnt many secrets that are unknown to others; fo...

Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together ag...

and only when that happens do you realise just how much silence there really is. Silence between lov...

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not ...

Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with wo...

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you...

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but...

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt,...

You know,” he said. “I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in ...

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the...

Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each ...

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch ...

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they ...

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something mi...

I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that ...

The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm...

Green was the silence, wet was the light,the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

Fear envelops bones like new skin,envelops blood with night’s skin,the earth moves beneath the soles...

I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if t...

The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greates...

It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the pati...

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,...

Sharing silence between us. Sometimes is all you can share.

He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald)

All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his r...

That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don’t happen...

Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world, and there are kinds and grades ...

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence...

I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's beca...

Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if ...

Loneliness clarifies. Here silence standsLike heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flow...

Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing...

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

... the silenceHolds with its gloved handThe wild hawk of the mind.

I would like to sing someone to sleep,to sit beside someone and be there.I would like to rock you an...

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer...

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell ...

He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, bu...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

This forest silence improves anyone.

Wheels turning, the motorcycle’s roar grows steady, which, too, is a form of silence.

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a pla...

And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceles...

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. B...

In reality I said nothing at all, but I heard a murmur, something gone wrong with the silence, and I...

He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having so...

I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no ...

I don’t know: perhaps it’s a dream, all a dream. (That would surprise me.) I’ll wake, in the silence...

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inab...

Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find ...

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaki...

Silence is so freaking loud

The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though; it wasn't empty so much as chosen. There'...

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endl...