Silent Quotes

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after.

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

Great joys, like griefs, are silent.

I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.

Hope is never silent.

I'd leave London only for Man United, the club of my dreams. For Mr Ferguson I'd also stay silent on the bench.

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

All women speak two languages: 
the language of men 
and the language of silent suffering.
 Some women speak a third, 
the language of queens.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

God walks with us. He scoops us up in His arms or simply sits with us in silent strength until we cannot avoid the awesome recognition that yes, even now, He is there.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

The worst expression of the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) anger towards his wife was that he would remain silent.

All the great pleasures of life are silent.

Be silent in a group of people See what they reveal to you.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

What is really yours? The blessings you bring to yourself, through your spoken or silent word, the things you see with your inner eye.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue - those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS - but they remain strangely silent.

Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

All beings may dance at ease in the breeze with minds left silent by laying to rest all things.

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.