Silence Quotes

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an encounter with Him who created us and loves us more than mother and father.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.

The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.

The unspoken word never does harm.

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

Silence gives answers.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

The eye tells what the tongue would hide.

The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

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

There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words.

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening.

The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

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

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.

Silence is more musical than any song.

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

A period of silence on your part would be welcome.

It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.

The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.