Comfort In Silence Quotes

#1. Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

Matthew Kelly

#2. Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety.
At any rate that afforded me some comfort.

Milan Kundera

#3. When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#4. Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

Dan Simmons

#5. God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

Pope Benedict XVI

#6. I fear silence because it leads me to myself, a self I may not wish to confront. It asks that I listen. And in listening, I am taken to an unknown place. Silence leaves me alone in a place of feeling. It is not necessarily a place of comfort.

Terry Tempest Williams

#7. God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.

Francois Fenelon

#8. God is never late, we're just impatient.

LeCrae

#9. There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable.

Nick Hexum

#10. There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.

Jodi Picoult

#11. Silence isn't the enemy. It can bring comfort and clarity and validation. It's a reminder of time for what it is ... presence.

Kim Holden

#12. The will of the nation is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#13. It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Mitch Albom

#15. Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
[Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence comfort me.

Arvo Part

#17. When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

Etta James

#18. There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.

Terry Tempest Williams

#19. Final things are for children, because infinity scares children, and it is important that children sleep peacefully at night.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#20. When silence is a living thing, it can be a friend, sometimes even a comfort.

Dot Hutchison

#21. I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all.

Silas House

#22. The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.

Alice Hoffman

#23. Outrageous ... that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort.

Radclyffe Hall

#24. People keep planning their lives
searching security and comfort.
This silence is the only security I know
those who can understand will understand.

Rajneesh

#25. Gonzo ... acidic hilarity ... 'The Fun Parts' has fine moments, but it's not the whole Lipsyte story. Read it with 'The Ask' if you really want to know how a mordant jokester with a madman's imagination became a literary rock star.

Janet Maslin

#26. Your comfort is my silence.

Barbara Kruger

#27. There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might even be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

Yukio Mishima

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

Thomas Merton

#29. Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind.

Dalai Lama

#30. There's comfort in hearing a voice when the world is silent.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#31. It is not enough to preach about family values, we must value families.

Hillary Clinton

#32. I had dedicated my life to words. But sometimes, words are not needed.

Jordan L. Hawk

#33. Periods of silent solitude spent in introspective reflecting are sacred and a source of great strength and comfort. We can learn from listening to the rhythms of nature and from appreciating the eternal hush of the cosmos.

Kilroy J. Oldster