Top 30 Keeping Silence Quotes
#1. To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut
Peter Gabriel
#2. 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
#3. And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
Albert Camus
#4. The pen is a poor exchange for the long-barreled gun." "It does more execution, nevertheless,
Frederick Marryat
#5. I don't get how it's okay to keep someone alive once they're sick - but not okay to stop them getting sick. I just don't get that.
Elizabeth Pisani
#6. Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.
Joyce Rachelle
#7. We fell into silence, both of us keeping our own secrets of what we'd suffered in the other's absence. I wondered if we were trying to protect each other or simply didn't want to admit to our own fears and weaknesses.
Richelle Mead
#8. Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.
Kamala Harris
#9. Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.
Aloe Blacc
#10. Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
James Russell Lowell
#11. You think of nothing but yourself. If you want to kill yourself, what's keeping you?' I said. Silence sat between out stares.
'Fear,' he said.
Ruta Sepetys
#12. Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate ... not following the thought stream ...
Mooji
#13. The saint maintains his piety through the graphic imagination of other people's vices. We thank him for it. The saint's impossible perfection allows us to go on being gargoyles while keeping our faith alive. We admire him for it. The saint's silence covers far more than our interpretations of it.
Ranjit Hoskote
#14. I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.
Theophilus London
#15. What distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity.
Soren Kierkegaard
#17. Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.
Alan Watts
#18. Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.
J. Ogden Armour
#19. Keeping her silence and stifling her hunger to know this complex, talented man both in and out of bed, she fell asleep to the rhythm of his voice, only to wake to the unadulterated demand of his kiss.
Nalini Singh
#20. It is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.
Mark Twain
#22. Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.
Mary Jo Putney
#23. Keeping your mouth shut is a devastating weapon. Your silence will make your opponent want to babble.
Lee Child
#24. Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?'
I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. 'What irony?' I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. 'That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.
John Boyne
#25. Keeping low to avoid the branches that blocked their paths, they scurried through the dark. Dante with his usual elegant silence and Abby crashing behind him like a bull elephant with a tranquilizer stuck in its butt.
Alexandra Ivy
#26. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell
#27. The silence stretched between them like an ocean of difference keeping them apart.
Caroline Gebbie
#28. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.
Kelly Cutrone
#29. There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.
Terry Tempest Williams
#30. We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility ... You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.
Lyall Watson
