Top 100 In Silence Quotes
#1. The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world.
Thomas Merton
#2. Yes indeed! My desires were fulfilled beyond measure. My lover and I emerged from the Bedouin tent a little before sunrise. Finding a quiet spot, we sat in silence, witnessing the morning sun rise above the mountain of Moses, while our host slept peacefully, after an exhausting night of love.
Young
#3. In Silence there is eloquence.
Rumi
#4. In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
Bee Wilson
#6. If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.
L.M. Montgomery
#8. Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor.
Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.
George R R Martin
#9. Bees will not work except in darkness;
Thought will not work except in Silence;
neither will Virtue Work except in secrecy.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#10. The first contact between people and a being from another planet took place under unusual circumstances: with an armed and ready gun, in silence, in the presence of Christianity and Islam, and the inability to communicate.
Ivan Lutz
#11. The screams were heard in every corner of all the Realms. Each feather that was ripped out was a heartrending cry. The archangel wept in silence while, with his flaming hand, he tore the wings from his brother.
Jorge Silva Rodighiero
#12. We sit in silence and watch the stars, I suppose because there are no words, not in all the languages on earth, that can properly describe the feeling of being in love. And perhaps those little burning lights out there in the dark, are the closest we come to something that does.
Beau Taplin
#13. I kiss him good-bye in my head, bidding farewell to the one I have loved in silence.
Stacey Lee
#14. Pierre held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful bosom as it rose and fell.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream
and died without joy,in silence and isolation.
David W. Earle
#16. Winston and his sister walked for a time in silence, each in an invisible, vibrating pocket of excitement.
Eric Berlin
#17. I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.
Trey Anastasio
#18. But this was like old movies, the silent theater haunted with black-and-white ghosts, silvery mouths opening to let moonlight smoke out, gestures made in silence so hushed you could hear the wind fizz the hair on your cheeks.
Ray Bradbury
#19. I can listen no longer in silence.
I must speak to you by such means
As are within my reach.
You pierce my soul.
Jane Austen
#20. The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.
Ernest Hello
#21. We sat in silence, listening to strange creaks and groans in the maze, the echo of stones grinding together as tunnels changed, grew, and expanded. The dark made me think about the visions I'd seen of Nico di Angelo, and suddenly I realized something.
Rick Riordan
#22. She's one of the few women I've met who can sit in silence.
E.L. James
#23. Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I'm traveling. I watch movies without sound.
A.R. Rahman
#24. For a long time they sat in silence, observing the huddles of juvenile reeds peeking through the water's surface, and watching the scores of bank-rooted daisies nodding their dainty heads in time with the gentle breeze.
Jack Croxall
#25. Be of good spirit, walk in silence, push forth more actions than words.
Henry Johnson Jr
#26. If you work hard in silence, your success will be the noise.
Riley Mackenzie
#27. Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#28. Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings
To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks:
He withers all in silence, and his hand
Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.
William Blake
#29. For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
Adam Weishaupt
#30. Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
Sam Mendes
#31. He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken words exist in the mind first and then go to the voice and sit temporarily inside ears, and if words are conveyed through sign language, they exist in the motion of hands.
Rita Leganski
#32. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
John Updike
#33. Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.
Paulo Coelho
#34. Bones okay?" Kit slouched, feet propped on the coffee table. "That's fine." We watched in silence, side by side, occasionally chuckling at some of the jokes. I
Kathy Reichs
#35. Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence.
Louis Sachar
#36. To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a personal secret.
Teju Cole
#37. 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
#38. We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.
Jodi Picoult
#39. Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#40. To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.
Robert Bly
#42. Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.
Swami Vivekananda
#43. The worst deformities, the foulest stains, disfiguring and blackening all the rest, are the very parts of Fijian nature which, while the most strongly characteristic, are such that may only be hurriedly mentioned, dimly hinted at, or passed by altogether in silence.
James Calvert
#44. Jax, I don't know if I can do this," I murmured.
"Do what?" he asked.
I though for a moment as he watched me in silence. "Survive you," I whispered in answer.
"Maybe you won't have to...
Nicole R. Locker
#45. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
Rumi
#46. Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#47. In silence they lay close, without passion, but closer than passion could bring them they lay close.
Pearl S. Buck
#48. There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence
Jacqueline Carey
#49. I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence Was there ever a more galling verse in the Bible?
Sue Monk Kidd
#50. Who can fear
Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll-
Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year?
Say thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll
The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear,
To love me also in silence, with thy soul.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#51. Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.
Machado De Assis
#53. Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.
Mary Webb
#54. A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.
George Sand
#55. When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us to make choices that bring us more happiness, health, love, meaning, and peace.
David Simon
#56. All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.
Karlfried Graf Durckheim
#57. There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.
Sharon Anthony Bower
#58. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Anonymous
#59. When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
Gangaji
#60. Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence."
Rumi
#61. Such obsession with reaching the moon, because they had failed to reach each other, each a solitary planet! In silence, in mystery, a human being was formed, was exploded, was struck by other passing bodies, was burned, was deserted. And then it was born in the molten love of the one who cared.
Anais Nin
#62. Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.
Robert Sexton
#63. I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.
Annie Baker
#64. The very presence of an angel is communication. Even when an angel crosses your path in silence, God has said to us, I am here. I am present in your life.
Tobais Palmer
#65. We sat and drank in silence. It was something I appreciated about Jesse. He didn't feel the need to fill every moment with talk or some sort of silly exchange.
Ruta Sepetys
#66. As to who among us is a ghost and who not I have nothing to say: it is a question we can only stare at in silence, like a bird before a snake, hoping it will not swallow us.
J.M. Coetzee
#67. I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.
Devon Werkheiser
#68. In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.
Jewel
#69. Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water, the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.
Megan Whalen Turner
#70. I watched you roll off me and step away from the bed in silence, but when the heat of your body was gone, I wanted it back.
Julio Alexi Genao
#71. These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.
Ricky Martin
#72. I suffered unbearable torture in silence, weeping internallyat the sad turn of events, blaming myself bitterly again and again for having delved into the supernatural without first acquiring a fuller knowledge of the subject and providing against the dangers and risks of the path.
Gopi Krishna
#73. The only answer that I give to you
is doing it," he said. "A just request
is to be met in silence, by the act.
Dante Alighieri
#74. The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it. I waited in silence
Elena Ferrante
#75. In silence one can receive more because all one's activities become concentrated at one point. There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything you do, you do to it.
Mother Meera
#76. The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
Remy De Gourmont
#77. All winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly ... consuming ...
John Geddes
#78. I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls. And the mute desert seemed to carry on our conversation for us.
Huston Smith
#79. I rest in silence and music and long strides, while Sam rests in noise and motion.
Anne Lamott
#80. Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.
Sara Maitland
#81. I had over twenty years ago damaged the cilia in my ears. This has taught me many things. One thing I learned, paradoxically, is that there is much to be heard in silence.
Mark Nepo
#82. ... in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.
Louisa May Alcott
#83. When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
#84. I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.
Sandra Bullock
#85. Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#86. SNEAK AROUND IN LIFE
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TIP TOE
THE SPIRITUAL WOOD FLOORS CREAK
LOUDER AND LOUDER NO MATTER HOW HARD
YOU TRY SNEAK IN SILENCE.
THAT'S WHEN YOU REALIZE ...
"SNEAKING IS NOISY"
AND S.I.N IS LOUD!!!!
Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
#87. At first, they would walk in silence, then their voices
Barbara Demick
#88. When you are seeking love, from the distance, in silence, love is attracting you.
Debasish Mridha
#89. When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.
Kevin Spacey
#90. At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.
Veronica Roth
#91. I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence.
Vironika Tugaleva
#92. A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, In silence.
Plutarch
#93. Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.
L.M. Montgomery
#94. Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
#95. Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.
Henning Mankell
#96. There's a degree of deception in silence.
Don Lemon
#97. He sits in silence, and his eyes are definitely not the man I know. They're wistful, lonely, and so beautiful I have to close mine. "I
Sally Thorne
#98. Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But whenmankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.
Meher Baba
#99. It was her, Marie Antoinette, scrutinizing me, satanically silent. Some would say that Marie Antoinette could only express her hate in silence because she was a turtle. To these naive souls I would reply that hate, like laughter, makes less noise the deeper it is.
-pg 100
Albert Sanchez Pinol
#100. In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with greater clarity what it is we want to say and what we expect from others; and we choose how to express ourselves.
Pope Benedict XVI
