Top 100 Quotes About Silence
#1. You must show no mercy ... nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you ... for your greatness will silence them all.
The Ultimate Warrior
#2. My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#3. Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
Donald Hall
#4. Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
Theodore Roosevelt
#5. Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.
Isaac Jogues
#6. Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#7. The nearer you approach to God, the less you reason and argue. When you attain Him, then all sounds - all reasoning and disputing - come to an end. Then you go into samadhi - sleep - , into communion with God in silence.
Ramakrishna
#9. You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#10. Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.
Nelly Mazloum
#11. My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.
Radka Donnell
#14. Only a man of inner silences becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very creativity, their very silence, their very love, their very peace will be the only way to protect this beautiful planet.
Rajneesh
#15. There was a limit to how many insults a man could swallow in silence.
Robert Jordan
#17. All those sounds of her failure and regret would be left behind, and in their place there would be silence.
Eowyn Ivey
#18. Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.
Ronnie Barker
#19. A pregnant pause with enough gestation can give birth to a well formed idea.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#20. But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.
S.D. Lawendowski
#21. I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
George Bernard Shaw
#22. Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still.
Caroline Emelia Stephen
#23. Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
John Lahr
#24. In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.
Dwight Yoakam
#25. In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.
B.G. Bowers
#26. Of silence, I can say only what I have heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave
and so speech isn't itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.
Jesse Ball
#27. There's one thing I want you to do for me."
"Anything." He pleaded.
"When you're all alone, sitting in the silence behind bars, separated from your freedom. Ask yourself. Was it worth it?" She closed her eyes and pulled the trigger.
Michelle Umland
#28. It was a silence so deep, so still, that a man could finally hear the beating of his own heart, the gentle whispers of the soul.
Kamran Pasha
#29. The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
Simon Van Booy
#30. And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.
Robert Scheer
#31. Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.
Jimmy Durante
#32. When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.
Akshay Vasu
#33. There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.
Michele Norris
#34. When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
David Leavitt
#35. I said go away!"
"No, you said 'get out'. I'm out."
"Now go away."
Silence. And then, "No.
Diana Peterfreund
#36. Children born to unwed mothers,' he said after a long silence, 'have parts of their souls missing.
Bernard Cornwell
#37. It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so you can only be awake now. Even the idea of permanence is an illusion. The question to ask is 'Am I awake and fully present NOW?' That question arises and is answered in perfect silence.
Leonard Jacobson
#39. Laws of silence don't work ... . When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
Tennessee Williams
#40. Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.
J.R. Ward
#41. What she most liked about their friendship was how much space there was for silence[.]
Naomi Jackson
#43. He talks about despair, how it drives in silence.
Gayle Forman
#44. Truth is often better seized and louder in the silence of the written word.
Ina Catrinescu
#45. I've been prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence.
Margaret Atwood
#46. More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.
L.M. Montgomery
#47. most people interpret silence as rejection!
Ali Vali
#48. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
W. H. Auden
#49. Better choose silence than bitter words which shall leave nothing but bitter footprints
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#50. 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
#51. We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C.S. Lewis
#52. Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence.
George R R Martin
#53. I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on.
Joshilyn Jackson
#54. Didn't know one another's names or ages or reasons for being there, and that was fine, because silence isn't the same when it's shared. Its sad and lonely sides are shunted off.
Dinaw Mengestu
#55. The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.
Mark Twain
#56. He dressed quickly in silence, refusing her tissues. He shakily pulled a wad of uncounted notes from his wallet, abandoned them in the no man's land between, and escaped in an indecent haste, leaving the shameful tableau in his wake.
Darren White
#57. You are
What you are looking for
In fragmented mirrors
Stop looking
Be Still
End the mind-noise
Silence Now
Eyes shut
Heart wide-open
And then you see
Everything!
Gabriel Iqbal
#58. I sit beside the moment
That stares at silence
Before anything could happen
Sayantan Sen
#59. My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
Anthony Doerr
#60. I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
Abraham Lincoln
#62. Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all.
Agatha Christie
#63. Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.
Karl Rahner
#64. The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at the end of things and to renounce the world.
Baha'u'llah
#65. I was at the bottom of the sea, the pressure dense, crushing, inexorable. Dead silence strained against my eardrums. The darkness was without reprieve. No mental adjustment could make it less absolute. It was impenetrable - black painted over black painted over black.
Haruki Murakami
#66. Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
Jack Whitehall
#67. Imagine you are the Earth and he is the Sun, that silence is tangible, and the stars are the souls of your previous lives.
Jessica Bell
#68. Don't you hate that? Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
Quentin Tarantino
#69. I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#70. I've been ignored by prettier women than you,
but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence
so far, without spilling a drop.
Jeffrey McDaniel
#71. Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#73. O wandering graves! O restless sleep!
O silence of the sunless day!
O still ravine! O stormy deep!
Give up your prey! Give up your prey!
Oscar Wilde
#74. Don't ever mistake silence for ignorance, when it is obviously stupidity
Josh Stern
#75. [W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.
Rajneesh
#76. If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
Jane Rule
#77. Neither could speak. It was the day that a silence settled on the pair of them, and they were bound close by it. Will felt, in that moment, too small to face such misery, but she knew that she would have to expand now, with a terrible rush, to fill the empty space.
Katherine Rundell
#78. Nothing is lifeless
when the moon writes its screed
on the silvern sand silence
-From the poem:The Universe In Blossom
Munia Khan
#79. For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#80. Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.
William Drummond
#81. My eyes always keep searching,
for something inexpressible,
above the far away sky.
I long to get lost,
inside the evening-twilight.
Silence always tickles me -
in a strange way;
I meet "me"
in the time between
sunset and darkness.
Khadija Rupa
#82. Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side ... . Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now. - RUMI
Tim Farrington
#83. Make no sound unless you can improve upon silence.
Anonymous
#84. The next morning he and Denise worked in an intimate silence. If she was up at the cash register and he was behind his counter, he could still feel the invisible presence of her against him, as though she had become Slippers, or he had - their inner selves brushing up against the other.
Elizabeth Strout
#85. Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#86. The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
Cormac McCarthy
#87. Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
Michael Leunig
#88. When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
Alice Hamilton
#89. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
Lawrence Durrell
#90. Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#91. Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.
Jim Butcher
#92. My river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full
Elena Ferrante
#93. When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our inner senses. Infused with silence and solitude, they bring out the mystery of inner landscape.
John O'Donohue
#94. Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Benjamin Franklin
#95. First Embody the Emptiness of Silence
Next Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love
Thus Be Heaven
Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH ...
Omid Mankoo
#97. The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#98. I press my ear against his chest, to the spot where I always rest my head, where I know I will hear the strong and steady beat of his heart. Instead, I find silence.
Suzanne Collins
#99. In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
C.S. Lewis
#100. After a week of silence Julian finally phones and I nervously tell him of Hamilton's offer, fully expecting him to go crazy.
Lynda Renham
