Top 100 Quotes About Silent
#1. All beings may dance at ease in the breeze with minds
left silent by laying to rest all things.
Buddhadasa
#2. So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.
Paul Fussell
#3. I never realized how utterly silent Mars is. It's a desert world with practically no atmosphere to convey sound. I could hear my own heartbeat.
Andy Weir
#4. The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples - that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.
Mark Twain
#5. Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#6. How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
Lord Dunsany
#7. It's like the Earth becomes completely silent and still, and all that your mind can understand or feel is the vastness of the Universe and you gasp about your place within it.
J.A. Redmerski
#8. We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science
Paul Kurtz
#9. The perfection of that silent moment was somehow better than a million mouthfulls promising forever.
Jessica Gadziala
#10. Tamar noticed that she had never met a person she felt so comfortable being silent with.
David Grossman
#11. ... me silent, serious, tormented by the thought that I was silent and serious. Especially together with Bendik, who chatted and laughed non-stop and was the type to say whatever came into his mind.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#12. People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
David Mamet
#13. Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
William Hazlitt
#14. Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
John Milton
#15. You read enough books in which people like you are disposable, or are dirt, or are silent, absent, or worthless, and it makes an impact on you. Because art makes the world, because it matters, because it makes us. Or breaks us.
Rebecca Solnit
#16. Sometimes remaining silent is giving support to the things we need to change.
Emma Paul
#17. Here I am
leaving you clues. I am singing now while Rome
burns. We are all just trying to be holy. My applejack,
my silent night, just mash your lips against me.
We are all going forward. None of us are going back.
Richard Siken
#18. At times, love is silent because of too much hurt or too much care. At all times,
love is the strongest voice you can always rely on.
Soar
#19. Tears are the silent language of grief
Voltaire
#20. I know gray areas too well. I write for silent audiences.
Antonia Perdu
#21. Coda
Perhaps to love is to learn
to walk through this world.
To learn to be silent
like the oak and the linden of the fable.
To learn to see.
Your glance scattered seeds.
It planted a tree.
I talk
because you shake its leaves.
Octavio Paz
#22. but on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#23. They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.
Antoni Tapies
#24. There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.
Ally Condie
#25. Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
Saint Ignatius
#27. A man shall not boast of his keenness of mind, But keep it close in his breast; To the silent and wise does ill come seldom
Anonymous
#28. If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.
Richard J. Foster
#29. Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer
#30. We are silent, considering shortfalls. There's not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it's not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.
Margaret Atwood
#31. To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
Alphonsus Liguori
#32. that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.
Okey Ndibe
#33. All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.
Mary Travers
#34. He gazed at me with kindness and pity. "To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil." I turned
Sue Monk Kidd
#35. Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
Thomas Hardy
#36. We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our lines were headed to the cafeteria or recess or the carpool line. Or it could've been a fire drill. Except for the stone-faced police officers weaving between us with rifles.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#37. This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.
Bob Kane
#38. The slow regard of silent things had wafted off the moisture in the air.
Patrick Rothfuss
#39. I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
Muriel Spark
#40. If a brokenhearted mother could sing, I could not remain silent.
Beth Moore
#42. If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart.
William Irwin Thompson
#43. Sleeping Atlantis
Silent cool waters
dancing upon her skin ~
silent cool water
ushering dreams within...
Muse
#44. So they went running together, silent, toward the vast wastes of snow where no living thing but they two moved under the stars of night.
Clemence Housman
#45. When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.
Eckhart Tolle
#46. My love for Sherry had been a shout across the silent night. Standing back here, in this town with her, was like being in a canyon. That shout became an echo, and that love sounded like a deafening never-ending roar.
Jeannine Allison
#47. Each one
From one's little noose
Cranes out
Yells and shouts
Groans aloud
And grows stout
And the noose tightens
Leaving no way to creap out
Till at the end
Swollen
Spent out
Becomes silent.
I am also having my turn among all.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#48. The shears found his throat this time. He fell down on top of them and was silent.
Something dark like mucilage glistened where he lay.
She had jumped back - not in remorse, but to keep the bottom of her skirt clear of his blood. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
Cornell Woolrich
#49. Screw the Silent Brothers."
"No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky."
"Isabelle!
Cassandra Clare
#50. I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!
Fats Waller
#51. Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
Miguel De Unamuno
#54. My steps were muffled. It was quiet, so quiet that I felt as if I did not walk but instead crawled in silence. The snow covered everthing and I walked above cotton, on silent carpets, on beach sand. Softness is temporary and deceiving. It gently receives you and gently expels you.
Rawi Hage
#55. The room smelled of books, that subtle smell which to some is stuffy and to others intoxicating, and it was silent.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#56. In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.
Gary Shteyngart
#57. Your silent smile speaks.
P. Hermans
June 21, 2017
Petra Hermans
#58. There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin
#59. One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. You plan to be a challenge, do you?"
Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent.
Sarah MacLean
#62. The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primaevl solitude would be like talking in church.
Jim Fergus
#63. And I feel it happen
silent and study as a feather, a piece of my soul becomes his.
Kristen Simmons
#64. Silence does not always imply consent. Sometimes it simply means that the silent one has opted out of a discussion with idiots.
Lex Allen
#65. I see you, even when you hide from the rest of the world. I hear you, even when you're silent.
Deborah Harkness
#66. Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Hannah Arendt
#67. There was Manderley, our Manderley, secretive and silent as it had always been, the gray stone shining in the moonlight of my dream ...
Daphne Du Maurier
#68. There are other ways to get back at your phone you know, if it's being naughty, you could simply make it communicate in Japanese,put it on silent, or even take away its battery privileges.
Holly Denham
#69. Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
Gaston Bachelard
#70. It's awkward and silent as I wait for you to say, what I need to hear now, your sincere apology. When you mean it, I'll believe it, if you text it I'll delete, let's be clear. Oh, I'm not coming back, you're taking 7 steps here ...
Miley Cyrus
#72. I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak ... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#73. The tree screamed Jingle Bells and the snow whispered Silent Night, but for the first time in her life she felt strangely Grinch-like.
Nicki Edwards
#74. She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it.
Jonathan Lethem
#75. There is among the people a silent, long-suffering grief; it withdraws into itself and is silent.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#76. Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.
Harlan Coben
#77. So it goes as I work my way down the page, and each cluster of marks is a
word, and each word is a sound in my head, and each time I write another
word, I hear the sound of my own voice, even though my lips are silent.
Paul Auster
#78. On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company!
Avijeet Das
#79. The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#80. When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.
Meister Eckhart
#81. I felt so full of gratitude and humility that I clasped my hands in front of me, closed my eyes and said a silent prayer of thanks to God ... I had at last achieved something I'd wanted for so long ... My insides bubbled with happiness. It was a dream come true.
Cathy Freeman
#82. In the awakened state, the mind is either perfectly silent or it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression.
Leonard Jacobson
#83. Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
James Jeffery Roche
James McAllister
#84. I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet.
Elena Mukhina
#85. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Dizzy Gillespie
#86. The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water ... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water ...
Ray Bradbury
#87. Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.
Honore De Balzac
#88. Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.
Mark Frost
#89. The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.
Werner Heisenberg
#90. Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent. Scheherazade's story is a desperate inversion of murder; it is the effort, throughout all those nights, to exclude death from the circle of existence.
Michel Foucault
#91. Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
Henry David Thoreau
#92. Unquestioning automatons
blindly marching to the beat -
an eerie crunching sound
hoards of shuffling feet ...
(from silent moments)
Muse
#93. A penny for your thoughts, silent one. Perhaps, today you'll speak.
Pepper Winters
#94. I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.
Pete Seeger
#95. Becoming a footballer is only the first half of the silent prayer a kid offers up to the sky or confides to his teacher in a primary school essay. The second part is the name of the team he wants to play for.
Andrea Pirlo
#96. Men are lonely and out of communication with one another because all their inventions speak only of death. Death is the automaton which rules the world of activity. Death is silent, because it has no mouth. Death has never expressed anything. Death is wonderful too
after life.
Henry Miller
#97. My mistake was not in speaking out. No, my mistake was staying silent for too long.
Hannah Harrington
#98. The mathematics stacks were as silent and empty as ever - apparently no one suspected the riches hidden there.
Yoko Ogawa
#99. Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.
John Heider
