Silence Quiet Quotes

#1. One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us

Ikechukwu Izuakor

#2. She married him two years ago for love, or so she thought, and he's a good enough man but a devotee of household silence. His idea of marriage is to spray WD-40 on anything that squeaks ... The quiet only subsides when Harland sleeps and his tonsils make up for lost time.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

Pythagoras

#4. The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

Guy Finley

#5. Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

Richard Matheson

#6. Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.

Elisabeth Elliot

#7. Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

Madeleine L'Engle

#8. I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

Diana Gabaldon

#9. Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate ... not following the thought stream ...

Mooji

#10. The afternoon our story begins, the quiet parts of being alive were the busiest: wind unlocking Windows; rainlight nudging curtains apart; fresh-cut grass tickling unsocked feet. Days like this made Alice want to set off on a great adventure.

Tahereh Mafi

#11. There are strange moments in life when the mind rests without any kind of worries. When our mind is quiet, when our mind is in silence, then the new arrives.

Samael Aun Weor

#12. The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of this silence comes a different kind of creativity.

Rajneesh

#13. 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

#14. Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

Pythagoras

#15. Peace is Letting Go
Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#16. I've always thought it would be nice to have the house to myself for a while. This place gets so loud all theme and there are always so many people in it. But I guess I'm grateful for all the noise and chaos. I don't know if I want to be alone in the quiet with my thoughts these days.

Keary Taylor

#17. Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice.

Susan Marsh

#18. Quiet had a roof and it had walls around it, and you could sit inside it. She had never thought of silence as a place.One of the friends, Tom Williams told her,'the place is in your heart, Louise. Everything else is just clutter.

Lloyd Jones

#19. The worst part was the silence. Death was supposed to be loud - gunshots, explosions, screams and thunder. Not this eerie quiet that wrapped around me like a shroud.

Karen Chance

#20. Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as ... as ... "
"Dead mice?" Reynie suggested.
"Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#21. But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

Sarah Vowell

#22. He searched the ground floor and found only shadow and stillness, which should've reassured him but didn't. It was the wrong kind of stillness, the shocked stillness that follows the bang of a cherry bomb. His eardrums throbbed from the pressure of all that quiet, a dreadful silence.

Joe Hill

#23. There are three reasons why I live in Scotland. First, I like silence, and you have to be a millionaire to buy silence in Italy. Second, I like cold weather. Third, in Italy I have too many relatives and know too many people, so I never get a quiet time.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#24. A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

Mason Cooley

#25. Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair.

Nikki Rosen

#26. Silence came in two categories, quiet and painful, or quiet and comfortable.

Catherine Bybee

#27. I'm not telling you to be quiet. I'm just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like.

Noor Iskandar

#28. How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#29. I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.

Daniel Tammet

#30. I don't answer. I'm not staging a rebellion here. I stay quiet because I don't want to break down, and I learnt a long time ago that, sometimes, the only way to silence the cries is by making no sound at all.

Ally Carter

#31. I think about my own silence. Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it's fear. I guess that's why I'm so quiet and such a good whisperer,

Paul Beatty

#32. They drank with quiet determination, avoiding serious discussions of troubling news. In doing this they added a small, sullen silence to the larger, hollow one. It made an alloy of sorts, a counterpoint.

Patrick Rothfuss

#33. What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty.

Frederick Barthelme

#34. You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.

Chuck Palahniuk

#35. 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

#36. Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

Joyce Rachelle

#37. A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.

Per Petterson

#38. They tell me to be quiet
When I'd rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
Out their eccentric meaning.

Initially NO

#39. [Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#40. The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

Cato The Younger

#41. I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

Saint Basil

#42. The limitless, lowering sky, the long stretches of motionless empty prairie, the silence, complete right down to the absence of birdsong
who knows what decides a man to leave most of his words unspoken?

Larry Watson

#43. Solemn silence makes noble worship.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#44. Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It's scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.

Tina Fey

#45. The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted
the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.

Stephen King

#46. We're sitting there, her smoking, me watching her smoke, and it's too quiet, so I do what I've done my whole life when it's too quiet. I say something really stupid.

A.S. King

#47. The quiet between them had gone on for far too long now to pretend it was anything other than what it was. There were no more words; all that was left were two faintly beating hearts.

Jennifer E. Smith

#48. we are quiet tonight, but in the same
silence

David Levithan

#49. A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.

A.M. Homes

#50. The bigness of the West makes men quiet; they seldom talk unless they have something to say.

William S. Hart

#51. History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

Kate Mosse

#52. And then there's silence. Though is silence the right word when, through the quiet, the air is so charged, electricity crackles deafeningly without making a sound?

Riley Edgewood

#53. Money ... buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors ... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.

Fran Lebowitz

#54. Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.

Vera Nazarian

#55. All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

David Whyte

#56. The silence joined the words we always left unspoken. Circling around and around until I was sure, the quiet would slice me open.-Lo Preston-The Wild Hunt

Ashley Jeffery

#57. The silence was killing me.
And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.

J. Lynn

#58. Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

Wendell Berry

#59. Charlotte had never forgotten it - she was always looking for it. An old house facing seaward, ships going up and down. Spruce woods and musty hills, cold salt air from the water, rest, quiet, silence.

L.M. Montgomery

#60. But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.

Bram Stoker

#61. The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence.

Maria Faustina Kowalska

#62. There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.

Anthony Liccione

#63. Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

Euripides

#64. Bid them be patient, and some day, anon,
They shall feel earth enwrapt in silence deep;
Shall greet, in wonderment, the quiet dawn,
And in content may turn them to their sleep.

John McCrae

#65. Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.

A. Lee Martinez

#66. Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Napoleon Hill

#67. He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud.

Rainbow Rowell

#68. The pair stood in long silence. Another thing Eilidh missed. Humans rushed everywhere, filled every moment with noise. They lacked the discipline of quiet.

India Drummond

#69. To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#70. And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.

Jeff Lindsay

#71. She was a woman of extended silences, I noticed, and she said very little as we walked the streets of La Boca, looking at its brightly colored houses. It was as if she understood that quiet observation was the key to knowing a place, perhaps even the key to life.

Thomas H. Cook

#72. There is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#73. When I come before Him, however, I need to put away everything, quiet my heart in silence, and allow the Holy Spirit to create the focus at that moment and let His presence fill me with wonder and awe. Through

A.W. Tozer

#74. ... 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

#75. But we do not fear silence, for often God speaks loudest in the quiet of our hearts. And

Diana Gabaldon

#76. These woods are where silence has come to lick its wounds.

Samantha Hunt

#77. Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

Joyce Rachelle

#78. Unlike those other painters, Brewster hadn't resorted to indirect gazes or chiaroscuro to communicate the silence of his world. The faces were well-lit and frontal, and yet they were quiet.

Teju Cole

#79. This silence felt not like the absence but the presence of something. I felt seen. It was so quiet it felt loud, like that moment between a breath in and a breath out. The woods' lungs seemed full, as if they were ready at any moment to speak.

Isaac Oliver

#80. To preserve the silence within
amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens
no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

Dag Hammarskjold

#81. I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said - the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.

Meia Geddes

#82. It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

Herman Hesse

#83. It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.

George R R Martin

#84. If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no ...

Jennifer Crusie

#85. He could think no longer; he leaned against his shadow. The silence within the slab of ancient stone eased through him; his thoughts, worn meaningless, became quiet again.

Patricia A. McKillip

#86. I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

Adriana Trigiani

#87. Quiet night. Silence at full capacity. Noiselessness is spilling over like a coffee cup full of jock cock. In a contact sport I've got to protect my genitals.

Jarod Kintz

#88. To be a Southerner, or to live Southern, is to feel, well, something special even in the quiet, something fine in itself after all those rebel yells and fight songs have finally faded into silence.

Rick Bragg

#89. Sometimes, there's no one around to tell you to be quiet... to be very, very quiet. Sometimes you need to be quiet when you're all alone.

Jay Asher

#90. Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

Robert Fripp

#91. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#92. I thought it would be quieter here." [Anna] hadn't meant to say anything, but the noise startled her.
"The wind in the trees," Bran said. "And there are some birds that stay year-round. Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.

Patricia Briggs

#93. Finally Lucinda grew used to her silence, and began not only to accept it, but treasure it. She too grew quiet. For the first time she heard the music of her heart.

John Speed

#94. Usually he liked the quiet; in fact, he would have happily sewn most people's lips shut. But when she wanted to, Inej had a way of making you feel her silence. It tugged at your edges.

Leigh Bardugo

#95. Waking At Night
The blue river is grey at morning
and evening. There is twilight
at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark
wondering if this quiet in me now
is a beginning or an end.

Jack Gilbert

#96. In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

Jasper Fforde

#97. A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

Thomas Moore

#98. Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

Brene Brown

#99. I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

Elizabeth Berg

#100. Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

Kristina McMorris