Top 100 Quotes About Your Silence
#2. He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard
#3. No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
Alice Walker
#4. In your palms, I've placed my life, my secrets. I give you freedom to leave me at any time. I'm not easy to love. No one ever has. All I ask is that you always keep your silence, if not for me, then for the families of the others you'd destroy. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. I will be waiting here ... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!
Rumi
#7. Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#8. Your mind has a flood of questions.
There is but one teacher
Who can answer them.
Who is that teacher?
Your silence-loving heart.
Sri Chinmoy
#9. To those who struggle to find peace amongst the chaos of your silence. May your voices be heard.
Jay McLean
#10. What did you say to me Itsy? The day when you broke your silence?
Itsy shrugged and shuffled back into her own apartment.
Suzanne Palmieri
#11. I promise to dream with you both great dreams and small dreams. To ask your counsel in times of uncertainty. To honor your silence when you seek to be alone. To be ever wondrous at your curiosities and revelations. And to be ever rejuvenated by your passions ...
Carew Papritz
#12. You don't know how to converse. Sometimes I think the spaces between the
stars are filled with your silence.
Sherry Thomas
#15. You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written - behind your silence and your suffering.
Anne Rice
#16. What the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence.
Dan Quayle
#17. This is always how the story would end," he says to me. "Not with your screams. Not with your rage. But with your silence.
Pierce Brown
#18. Perhaps we should do the learning - and learn not to communicate, or to do it in a different way. Now there is a thought. Perhaps we could learn your peace if we could share your silence.
Mary Balogh
#19. As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.
Rajneesh
#20. Keeping your mouth shut is a devastating weapon. Your silence will make your opponent want to babble.
Lee Child
#21. If you see oppression, violence, injustice and evil deeds, unzip your silence and uncaring indifference, do something and act against all these unethical instances." ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my novel, If I Could Tell You
Angelica Hopes
#22. It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
William James
#23. Worse even than your maddening song, your silence.
Sylvia Plath
#24. Once you go silent everyone starts misinterpreting what your silence says.
Jasmine Sandozz
#25. When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.
Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
#26. To know your languages of all languages
is to know your silence.
Petra Hermans
Petra Hermans
#27. In reality, to remain neutral is to collude with the abusive man, whether or not that is your goal. If you are aware of chronic or severe mistreatment and do not speak out against it, your silence communicates implicitly that you see nothing unacceptable taking place.
Lundy Bancroft
#28. Your silence is loudest to those who love you most.
Steve Maraboli
#29. Take the risk that you'll end up regretting your speech, because it's better than regretting your silence.
Brian Morton
#30. Your silence was effortless and windless, like the silence of clouds or plants. All silence is the recognition of a mystery. There was much about you that seemed mysterious. A
Vladimir Nabokov
#31. Your silence will never protect you,
Indeed, Silence is the ultimate weapon of power,
but It destroy us first ...
Sahil Nazim
#32. 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
#33. You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
Pablo Neruda
#34. 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
#35. When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence.
Luqman
#36. Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion.
Debasish Mridha
#37. Even if you have kept silent for the sake of the dead, you cannot rest in your silence, as the dead rest.
Eudora Welty
#38. Your silence gives consent.
Plato
#39. Your silence holds the mysterious and beautiful secrets of your life. Feel it, love it, adore it, live it, and enjoy it.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Don't waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.
Mandy Hale
#41. Who cannot understand your silence, cannot understand your words.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#42. If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.
Jason Evert
#43. O dear Himalaya ... why are you so amazing, can I kiss your peak or can I just let your silence speak ... O dear Himalaya ...
Santosh Kalwar
#44. You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
Audre Lorde
#48. But I don't want your silence when I do it. I want to hear you scream.
Ella Frank
#49. Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#50. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
#51. You never leave yourself as an impression upon the world. The world always leaves its impression upon your silence. This is how we travel as seers, upon this feather-light touch.
Lujan Matus
#52. I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#53. Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth
Anne Rice
#54. And the too much of my speaking:
heaped up round the little
crystal dressed in the style of your silence.
Paul Celan
#55. If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#56. The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.
Dan B. Allender
#57. Marriage is not so easy and, many a time, it is best to hold your silence if you don't want fights,
Preeti Shenoy
#59. To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
Plato
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. [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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. When I am looking for you, then in silence, your every atom is longing for me.
Debasish Mridha
#69. When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.
Frederick Lenz
#70. People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#71. Your stamina is impressive," he commented. There was a beat of silence and Sin said with a scoff, "I could say something, but I'll refrain.
Santino Hassell
#72. MR. SMITH: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. [Silence.]
MR. MARTIN: Don't you feel well? [Silence.]
MRS. SMITH: No, he's wet his pants. [Silence.]
MRS. MARTIN: Oh, sir, at your age, you shouldn't. [Silence.]
MR. SMITH: The heart is ageless. [Silence.]
Eugene Ionesco
#73. Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
Sri Aurobindo
#75. But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.
Rumi
#76. You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.
Grenville Kleiser
#77. You see an army running after you, every minute they become more and more you run as much faster as possible, you leave everything behind your back to safe your ass... and after all you are alone silence is with you.
Deyth Banger
#78. If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.
Sandra Bullock
#79. The breath of song in your remembering eyes cascades fragile reflections of time-steeped sunsets tinting delicate snowflakes with the solitude of a sleeping forest where ancient secrets lie waiting, undisturbed by knowing, tranquil in the forgetfulness of yesterday's silvery silence
Sean Terrence Best
#80. You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of people - viewers - together and make them one. When you feel that happening, it's usually in silence, not applause or laughter.
Kevin Spacey
#81. Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence ... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.
Gautama Buddha
#82. Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.
Serge Schmemann
#84. I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff's night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over your shoulder, a silence that feels like a living thing.
Sabaa Tahir
#85. If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
Steve Coogan
#86. The MRI shows a mass in your brain, which is causing your symptoms." Silence. "Do you want to see the MRI?" "Yes." I
Paul Kalanithi
#87. ... he didn't needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.
Toni Morrison
#88. Every hour of your life that ticks by, there are numerous points and moments when you can choose to pause - and be aware of your mental and physical state. At any given point, you can freeze the flow that is your life, and be fully conscious for a moment.
Kevin Michel
#89. Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.
Deepak Chopra
#90. The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence
silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones
Vinay Kumar
#91. ... if you can't be happy then be quiet!" frm "Silent Joe," by T Jefferson Parker." Silence is another form of lying." frm "Attachment," by me. Take your pick ... words, "writing freezes speech," Chris Hedges. "Writing is thinking," me.
Mark Jabbour
#92. I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.
Claudia Gray
#93. I miss the sound of your voice
And I miss the rush of your skin
And I miss the still of the silence
As you breathe out and I breathe in
Matt Nathanson
#94. When your eyes meet my solitude
Silence ripens, a fruit,
And sleep turns into storm.
Forbidden doors fling open
And water learns to suffer.
Joumana Haddad
#95. 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
#96. When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.
Ruth Ozeki
#97. A period of silence on your part would be appreciated.
Clement Attlee
#98. Often the most effective statement we can make in a noisy world is to say nothing at all. Don't waste your words over something or to someone who deserves silence.
Chris Vonada
#99. The world didn't end with a whimper or a bang. Your life finished in complete silence. Gone in a blink. And then there was nothing.
F.K. Preston
