Silence Keeps Quotes

#1. The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.

Armin Wiebe

#2. There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Francis Bacon

#3. The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

Alfred De Musset

#4. Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

Robert Anton Wilson

#5. Either you like cats or you don't. Whole nations have been divided on what people thought of an animal that mates openly, walks in silence and keeps its own counsel.

John Hillaby

#6. ...when you sit in a forest everything appears still. But it isn't really. If you listen and watch closely, life is happening everywhere around you...In silence, life keeps raging on.

Katherine Holubitsky

#7. What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Claude Monet

#8. When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#9. Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.

Samuel Beckett

#10. A man is known by the silence he keeps

Oliver Herford

#11. There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

Ben Hecht

#12. Silence is the snare of the demon, and the more one keeps silent, the more terrifying the demon becomes.

Soren Kierkegaard

#13. Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Dorothy Dix

#14. She keeps telling
herself and others
that she doesn't want
a relationship to silence
the longing in her soul.
That alternative fact
feeds her insecurities
and starves her soul.

Sanjo Jendayi

#15. When I sit in my silence and look at my mind, it is only questions of longing and control that emerge to agitate me, and this agitation is what keeps me from evolving forward.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. Silence keeps a secret. I understand.' I

Robin Hobb

#17. He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.

Neal Shusterman

#18. When you act a scene with Sidney Poitier, he listens intently to every word you say. You can feel your words hit him. He makes the scene utterly real.

Judy Geeson

#19. All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and when it comes to the Holiday Season, happy families can abruptly become unhappy and unhappy families can, to their great alarm, be happy

Marisha Pessl

#20. There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the happy state- or, at least, to the state when pain keeps within bounds.

Elizabeth Bowen

#21. He was going to need God Almighty to come down from On High to explain this one.

Kelly Moran

#22. Elena didn't look away - she'd rather face death than have her mind invaded, for what was that if not another form of crawling?

Nalini Singh

#23. Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past.

Michael Bassey Johnson