Silence Can Speak Quotes

#1. Why should being quiet mean you're in love?
Because, she said. That means you aren't nervous with each other, or affected, or likely to be hiding intentions behind too much conversation. A friendly silence can speak between two who will walk together a long way, she said.

Nancy E. Turner

#2. why talk and say the unsaid words in haste when silence can speak the unspoken words?

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#3. In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

Mother Teresa

#4. But they're too shy to speak when my mother-in-law doesn't; sometimes they open their mouths to begin, but they never get as far as the first sentence. You must get used to an ocean of silence, and just swim about in it as well as you can.

Edith Wharton

#5. Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

Tim Ward

#6. I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

Herta Muller

#7. Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

Robert Sexton

#8. We stand there, knee deep in the water, holding hands. The silence is thunderous with words we don't speak. I feel his presence beside me like it's an extension of my own body, tall and strong and so, so beautiful. But I can't look at him. Right now, it hurts too damn much.

Nicole Christie

#9. 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

#10. As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Paul Robeson

#11. If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

Anne Bronte

#12. 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

#13. Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

Lech Walesa

#14. Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

Margaret Weis

#15. He had learned in the past four years to speak only when he knew that which he was speaking about. Moreover, he had learned that silence can sometimes relax a listener into thinking that one might be intelligent.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. I would like to stay like this, lazy, warm, in the silence where only our regular breathing can be heard, without ever having to make gestures, speak words which sell us out and betray us; this moment is real and alive, I stretch it into eternity...

Albertine Sarrazin

#17. Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#18. Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#19. Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people's silence.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

Laozi

#21. What we can't speak, we say in silence.

Hillary Jordan

#22. Better choose silence than bitter words which shall leave nothing but bitter footprints

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. Don't speak unless you can improve the silence.

Anonymous

#24. You can speak loudly with deep silence

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. Pagans can be just as monstrous as any other group. They can be murderers, rapists, pedophiles. We need to accept that they are our problem and deal with them. We need to speak against their crimes and challenge them rather than letting our silence make us complicit.

Thomm Quackenbush

#26. Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones, with awe and reverence, as you would in a cathedral. Let not the mind engage in trivial thoughts. The awesome majesty of Death can only be met in silence.

Jennifer Worth

#27. No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.

Walter Raleigh

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. I am speechless: what can I answer?
I put hand on my mouth.
I have said too much already;
now I will speak no more.

Stephen Mitchell

#31. If you can see silence as the ground of all words and the birth of all words, then you will find that when you speak, your words will be more well-chosen and calm. Francis

Richard Rohr

#32. The voice of silence speaks clearly in those moments, and you can ask it to speak anytime you want. In time it will become the voice you trust more than anything else.

Deepak Chopra

#33. 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

#34. We switch to another language
not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.

David Levithan

#35. The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#36. I lived through this horror, and no one can tell me I have to stay quiet.
"I have been silenced long enough, and I will not allow that family to silence me again. I will continue to speak out and make sure my voice is heard.

Erin Merryn

#37. Eyes speak louder than words; life is precious; hate is poison; God is the best of all possible friends; silence and time are valuable treasures; happiness can be just as powerful in pretend; and soft licorice is a temptation in any color, especially exotic black.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#38. The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

Wendy Doniger