Top 100 Listen To Silence Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Listen To Silence

#1. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Sylvia Plath

#2. Strange, she thinks, how vulnerable the back of your neck feels when you listen to silence.

Glenn Haybittle

#3. I listen to silence. And you have a lot to say. Although I haven't quite figured out what it is yet ... I promise not to delve into what makes your silence so loud, if you promise not to walk out on me.

Rebecca Donovan

#4. But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

Khalil Gibran

#5. 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.

Chaim Potok

#6. Listen closely ... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

Jack Kerouac

#7. Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.

Richard Powers

#8. His laughter made me laugh, his thoughts made me think, and his silence made me listen to each intake of his breath.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#9. I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.

Mother Teresa

#10. If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

Paulo Coelho

#11. I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

Sting

#12. We sit in silence for several minutes, and I listen to the sound of his breathing, surprised how something so simple can fill me with contentment.

Denise Grover Swank

#13. Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

Jack Kerouac

#14. Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Alice Hoffman

#15. For he who has once had to listen will listen always, whether he knows he will never hear anything again, or whether he does not. In other words, they like other words, no doubt about it, silence once broken will never again be whole.

Samuel Beckett

#16. I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

Louis Sachar

#17. Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can.

Helen Prejean

#18. When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

Bryant McGill

#19. To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.

Eckhart Tolle

#20. There, in the silence that's never quite silent, I realized that, if there are at least seven thousand wants to speak, there are at least seven thousand ways to listen.

Mark Nepo

#21. Even the silence
has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen.

Jacqueline Woodson

#22. Learn to listen to this silence, because it will tell you many things, unimaginable things, things of great beauty and meaning.

Michael Paterniti

#23. I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.

Sophie Blackall

#24. Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

Susan Sontag

#25. If you observe the pace of my breaths, you won't need to listen to my words.

Nema Al-Araby

#26. I listen to the silence
and yearn to be more me,
swimming in the sea of myself,
learning eternally -
finding out where the rocks are
and smoothing them into sand.

Jay Woodman

#27. If you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

Phyllis Bottome

#28. Listen to the night wind in the trees, Listen to the summer grass singing; Listen to the time that's tripping by, And the dawn dew falling. Listen to the moon as it climbs the sky, Listen to the pebbles humming; Listen to the mist in the trembling leaves, And the silence calling.

Ruskin Bond

#29. Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

Alfred Brendel

#30. Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins to shine forth, and we are introduced to the mysteries of the deep, the call of the within, the infinite radiance of a splendor that time and space forgot

Ken Wilber

#31. Listen to sounds beyond silence.

Shirley Maclaine

#32. May, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. (233)

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen. (278)

Jacqueline Woodson

#33. Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

Mike Dirnt

#34. Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

Plutarch

#35. We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

Kim Basinger

#36. Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.

Harley King

#37. You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#38. Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions - mine.
"Mine," he repeated when she sighed heavily. "No one else's."
Silence. Only the warm wetness of her tears dampening his shirt.
It broke his heart.

Cindy Gerard

#39. Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

Stephen Chbosky

#40. Listen to the silence ... it has much to say.

Susan Jeffers

#41. The son will not speak to her. She watches him, and she wants to tell him that he can put all his hate on her; she will take it all, if that's what he needs her to do. Listen, really listen, and that's what she is saying in her silence. The boy can't help but hear.

Justin Torres

#42. I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

Elizabeth Berg

#43. For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#44. One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#45. Try to listen silence of your loved one And you will find voice of Heart and Feelings

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#46. Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets, listen. Hear it? It's a love song.
For whom?
You are loved.

David Foster Wallace

#47. Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

Pope Benedict XVI

#48. I tend to avoid people who always have something to say ... and those who expect me to always have something to say.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#49. She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

Michael Ende

#50. Listen to my Silence, Petra Hermans

Petra Hermans

#51. Silence not only lets you listen but to see things with much more clarity than you ever can.

Gopichand Lagadapati

#52. And perhaps one day, in after years, someone would wander there and listen to the silence, as she had done, and catch the whisper of the dreams that she had dreamt there, in midsummer, under the hot sun and the white sky.

Daphne Du Maurier

#53. To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

Laurence Overmire

#54. When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.

Anthony De Mello

#55. You have music in your heart; just listen in the deep silence to reveal it.

Debasish Mridha

#56. And so silence and ... darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly.
"Assuredly," she said, "provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything.

Mary Balogh

#57. While sitting in the darkness in complete silence, I never realized how much there was to see and hear. There is sight and sound in darkness and silence. Learn to look and listen.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#58. Silence is a time of reflection to bring peace and meaning to your life, and to those around you. This deafening quiescence will mean different things to different people but if they listen carefully, they will understand...

Virginia Alison

#59. In addition to listening to the audience's laugh, you want to listen to their silence. Is it bored or interested silence? The silence is quieter and filled with energy when they're interested. You can hear a pin drop. When they're bored, you can always hear it.

Franklyn Ajaye

#60. There is a way to master silence
Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners
And listen to the hiss of time outside

Paul Bowles

#61. Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?

Gail Carriger

#62. A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

#63. If we are to know the Lord, we must go to Him. Listen to Him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach Him in the Sacraments.

Pope Francis

#64. Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Mother Teresa

#65. Listen to the sound of silence.

Paul Simon

#66. Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

Robert Muller

#67. Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

Sri Aurobindo

#68. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

T. S. Eliot

#69. All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence.

Rajneesh

#70. In the depth of silence
be speechless
to listen the song of life,
song of creation of life,
primordial song.
Be silent, and listen to your heart.
Can you hear
The song of life,
The song of love,
The song of creation?

Debasish Mridha

#71. Nothing will inflame your enemies more than your silence. Give them nothing. Nothing to accuse you with. Nothing to condemn you. Let your actions speak for themselves. Never talk to an enemy, but listen always.

Elizabeth Hunter

#72. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

Alan Watts

#73. Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as ... as ... "
"Dead mice?" Reynie suggested.
"Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#74. listen to the silence of those who've learned to pray for nothing. For nothing has always been their portion, whatever the name of their nation, their city, their tribe.

Anne Rice

#75. But this time I chose to silence both my head and my heart so that I could listen carefully to the silent flutter of wings.

Lacey Ellmoore

#76. To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

Henry Miller

#77. Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

Rachel Simon

#78. Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made.

Samuel Beckett

#79. 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

#80. Learning the value of silence is learning to listen to, instead of screaming at, reality

Monks Of New Skete

#81. Listen to the song of silence to understand the unsung music of the heart.

Debasish Mridha

#82. 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

#83. It is less distracting in the silence," she said. "Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We call it waiting in expectation.

Tracy Chevalier

#84. Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#85. I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

Soren Kierkegaard

#86. The real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.
To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing
that demands real effort.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#87. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, - Listen and do not hear - the tongue moves but does not speak ... I want you to pray for me - that I let Him have free hand.

Mother Teresa

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.

Frank D. Gilroy

#91. For the first time he became aware of the profound silence of the place, insulated by stone and metal from the noise of the street outside. It gave the mosque a sympathetic air, as if it could speak but chose instead to listen.

G. Willow Wilson

#92. It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.

Kenneth Patchen

#93. You can listen to the secrets of life
in the silence of night,
in the voice of the ocean,
in the beating of your heart.
Just listen with your soul.

Debasish Mridha

#94. 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

#95. The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention ... . A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Rachel Naomi Remen