Top 100 Silence Is Quotes
#1. In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.
Gangaji
#2. Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.
Blaise Pascal
#3. Obedience is a knife that cuts the cord of bondage.
Silence is a hammer that shatters the walls of speech.
Stillness is strength; pain a soft bed.
Put down your basin; emptiness is the only vessel.
Brian Staveley
#4. Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
Bob Monkhouse
#5. She asked me why I am not answering her questions. I looked at her with love and kept silent. Silence is my best answer for her intriguing questions.
Debasish Mridha
#6. A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.
Samuel Chadwick
#7. There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.
Eugene Kennedy
#8. For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.
David Wong
#9. Meralda shook her head. "Pay him no attention, gentlemen," she said. "Logic fails. Reason surrenders. Silence is your only defense."
"Silence, and a whooping big crossbow," muttered Mug. Kervis grinned, and Mug winked. "That's a lad," he whispered. "There's hope for you yet.
Frank Tuttle
#11. The people's silence is a tyrant's greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.
John Kramer
#12. Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
Benjamin Franklin
#14. You see, 'The Look of Silence' is the first film ever made where survivors confront perpetrators who still hold a monopoly on power. It's normally never done because it is too dangerous.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#15. Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the voice of God. In this time of preparation for Christmas, let us cultivate interior recollection so as to receive and keep Jesus in our lives.'
Pope Benedict XVI
#16. Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
Alice Fulton
#17. Silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?
Margaret Deland
#20. Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.
Sri Chinmoy
#22. There are times when silence is better than any other words in the dictionary...
Francis Chalifour
#23. The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.
Frederick Lenz
#24. Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation.
Christian Wiman
#25. One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated.
Gary Cooper
#26. Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently.
Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.
Silence awakens the sleeping seeker in me.
Silence enlightens the aspiring seeker in me.
Silence fulfills the self-giving seeker in me.
Sri Chinmoy
#28. There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.
Martha Beck
#29. That was the first sound in the song of love!
Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound.
Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
Of that mysterious instrument, the soul,
And play the prelude of our fate. We hear
The voice prophetic, and are not alone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#30. And, as a general rule, it is more advisable to show your intelligence by saying nothing than by speaking out; for silence is a matter of prudence whilst speech has something in it of vanity
Arthur Schopenhauer
#31. To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Colette
#32. The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.
David Whyte
#33. I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard and secret in its own pocket. But the crimson birds could find no such escape, no means of slipping beyond themselves between the cracks of color and song to a white undiscovered silence.
Janet Frame
#34. Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.
Edward Hoagland
#35. Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.
Gunilla Brodde Norris
#36. A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two
Chaim Potok
#37. That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it
Hannah More
#38. I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.
Nas
#39. Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness
Rumi
#42. Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
Are you ready to shatter the silence?
Share your secrets.
Ellen Hopkins
#43. Being this close to her silence is like my heart breaking all over the place. I can feel it, like it's pulling me down into a bottomless pit, like it's calling for me to just fall and fall and fall.
Patrick Ness
#44. Churches are vessels of hush, as well as everything else they are, and when I block out the distractions of vision, the silence is almost shockingly loud.
Francis Spufford
#46. Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita
#48. My silence is not my weakness, I am conserving my energy to destroy the evil
Samrat
#49. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.
Anne D. LeClaire
#50. Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.
David Whyte
#57. Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.
Mitch Albom
#59. Sometimes I struggled to say something meaningful only to learn that silence is just as powerful as words.
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
#60. Silence ... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.
Alfred Brendel
#61. Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#62. Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.
Nhat Hanh
#63. 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
#64. Silence is just as likely to indicate the most profound ideas forming, the deepest energies being summoned.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#65. Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.
Kenneth Eade
#66. Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.
Edmund Burke
#67. Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.
Linda Bradford Raschke
#68. Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.
Frances Ridley Havergal
#69. Silence is the only safe answer to Silence.
Talbot Mundy
#70. Silence is an ornament for women.
Sophocles
#71. The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today ...
... some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#72. Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.
Gautama Buddha
#73. Silence is not broken by speech, but by the anxiety to be heard.
Thomas Merton
#75. Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
#78. Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.
Sri Chinmoy
#79. Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience,
Rachel Simmons
#80. There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.
Gregory Bateson
#82. Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.
Toni Morrison
#83. Silence is the cruelest means of rejection, even if it only masks confusion or regret. The
Megan Marshall
#84. When one thinks what one leaves in the world when one dies, Only silence is strong, - all the rest is but lies.
Henry Adams
#85. Father's silence is not merely the absence of sound. It's a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm.
Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.
Franny Billingsley
#87. When silence is God's only voice,
And waiting on Him my only choice,
A banner of faith I humbly raise
And offer a sacrifice of praise.
Though answers He may not impart,
Forever I can trust His heart.
Kathy Herman
#88. It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.
Muhammad
#91. Any understanding of God that doesn't take into account God's silence is a half truth - in effect, a cruel distortion - and leaves us vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by leaders who are quite willing to fill in the biblical blanks with what the Holy Spirit never tells us.
Eugene H. Peterson
#93. My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.
Henry Rollins
#94. Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.
Martha Grimes
#97. But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
Diane Setterfield
#98. Silence is the most powerful scream.
Anonymous
#99. The only acceptable alternative to silence is to speak from the heart
Marty Rubin
#100. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
Khaled Hosseini
