Top 100 Silence Is The Quotes
#1. 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
#4. Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
Rumi
#5. Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius
#7. Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#8. A thousand prayers every minute everywhere and what does God ever say back? Nothing! Because silence never lies. Silence is God's final advantage. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it.
Joe Hill
#9. Silence is the invisibility of talking. I'd take half an argument over half a silence any day. And I'd take peace and quiet over a full-blown argument any other day, unless it's Tuesday.
Will Advise
#10. Silence is the space where man wakes up.
Rajneesh
#12. Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.
Richard Rohr
#15. Silence is the purest form of harmony. Everyone ought to try it. Put a stone in your mouth instead of a lie. Put a rock on your tongue instead of gossip. Bury the liars and the wicked under stones until they say no more. More weight, hallelujah.
Joe Hill
#17. Some things you cannot see or explain, but they are there, lurking.
Some things dwell in the dark: waiting ... watching ... haunting.
Sometimes evil takes on many forms, many faces.
And silence is the last thing you hear, when it's already too late.
THE SILENCE
Barry Brickey
#18. They say the silence is the language of God, but so is music. This is why we dance, we become loud in our silence.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#19. Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
Ramana Maharshi
#20. Silence is the mother of all screams.
N.J. Paige
#22. Customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.
Sarah Siddons
#23. To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
Elayne Boosler
#25. King wrote. Silence is the underlords' failure.
Andy Crouch
#26. Why are you so afraid of silence,
silence is the root of everything.
If you spiral into its void,
a hundred voices will thunder
messages you long to hear
Rumi
#27. Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
Iris Johansen
#28. silence is the most intolerable of answers.
Mason Cooley
#29. To carry the deep process of transformation
by inner silence, is the most lovely love of the soul.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
October 21, 2016
Petra Hermans
#31. The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.
John Main
#34. Silence is the enemy of social change.
Marc Bekoff
#36. Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.
Mark Buchanan
#37. We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.
Charles Alexander Eastman
#38. Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room.
Cory Basil
#41. Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent.
Blaise Pascal
#42. Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
Sophocles
#46. Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.
Blaise Pascal
#47. A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.
Samuel Chadwick
#48. There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.
Eugene Kennedy
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation.
Christian Wiman
#54. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#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 the only safe answer to Silence.
Talbot Mundy
#65. 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
#66. Often silence is the most dignified response.
Emily Nelson
#68. When it comes, you'll be dreaming that you don't need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it's part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
Wislawa Szymborska
#70. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for
you and dote upon the exchange.
William Shakespeare
#72. Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
Erica Jong
#73. In the absence of uplifting words, Silence is the best choice.
Joan Ambu
#74. Silence is the potential from which music can arise.
Keith Jarrett
#76. Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.
Soren Kierkegaard
#77. Children need to learn that silence is the home of spirit. All other voices speak out loud, but spirit communicates without making a sound.
Deepak Chopra
#79. Silence is the cruelest means of rejection, even if it only masks confusion or regret. The
Megan Marshall
#84. Silence is the most powerful scream.
Anonymous
#85. Silence is the snare of the demon, and the more one keeps silent, the more terrifying the demon becomes.
Soren Kierkegaard
#86. Silence is the language of the cosmos. From the smallest stone to the sun itself, they all communicate through silence, greatly rich with meaning and deep, very deep. In order to understand it, we need to have a special mind.
Anu Lal
#87. I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.
Don DeLillo
#89. Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.
Jen Hatmaker
#90. Silence is the song of eternity; it is the expression of eternal beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#92. Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.
Luther Standing Bear
#95. In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended.
In Illumination, all things appear as is.
Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom.
The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.
Sheng Yen
#96. Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
Marlee Matlin
#97. If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.
Igor Levit
#98. Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
Maimonides
#99. Silence is not absence of words. Silence is the space where words arise and dissolve. Without silence, words have no meaning
Rashmit Kalra
#100. Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.
Rumi
