Top 88 Silence Thinking Quotes
#1. I ate sitting in the kitchen in silence, thinking about future. I saw tornadoes, hurricanes, tidal waves, fire. Then I washed the frying pan, plate and silverware, brushed away the crumbs and unbolted the door to the courtyard. Before I left, I turned out the light.
Roberto Bolano
#2. They lay in silence, thinking their own thoughts, each trying to know the other's. They were becoming strangers on top of each other.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#3. I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.
Frederick The Great
#5. If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#6. To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.
John Muir
#7. She'd fallen into a deep silence once, when the sun appeared, and it was then he'd wondered most what she was thinking.
Veronica Rossi
#8. Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#10. Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.
Lord Chesterfield
#11. I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.
Cornelius Eady
#12. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
Rumi
#13. I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the recording studio is looking at their watch and waiting for me to say something. And I'm searching desperately in my brain for anything before something dribbles out.
Jack Black
#14. Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence."
Rumi
#15. Actually, I think it's the opposite. We know each other so well there isn't anything left to say. Sometimes it's nice just sitting here with you all, thinking. It's only best friends who can be comfortable with silence, wouldn't you say?
Benjamin Wood
#16. The silence stretched. Finally Al added one more sentence that I have been thinking about ever since. 'And if you did it again,' he said, 'we would have to kill you again.' We stared at each other for some time after that; each convinced, I am sure, that the other was a total idiot.
Dan Simmons
#17. Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.
James Altucher
#18. You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
George Sand
#19. I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Cato The Elder
#20. Author refers to, short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.
Thomas Hughes
#21. The sun still, surprisingly, came up and shone down onto the cold, metal leftovers. No loud noises. No screams. No breaking glass. Just silence and sunshine. You would be forgiven for thinking that this all happened on another planet. It didn't.
Pleasefindthis
#22. I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.
Don DeLillo
#23. Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.
Alan Watts
#24. Sometimes life was like smoking in silence , without thinking where and when you are !
Ali Rezavand Zayeri
#25. He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to get chaotic or crazy.
Tyson Fury
#26. Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#27. Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
Thomas Browne
#29. He is heard only when we hope to hear Him, and if, thinking our hope to be fulfilled, we cease to speak, His silence ceases to be vivid and becomes dead, even though we recharge it with the echo of our own emotional noise.
Thomas Merton
#30. I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence
Lupe Fiasco
#31. I knew I wasn't thinking right, that I was little more than a jumble of emotions and half sentences. I thought in colors, and saw in bursts of silence.
C.D. Reiss
#32. Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.
Kobo Abe
#33. There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.
Margaret Atwood
#34. We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.
Mother Mary Francis
#35. Ree-" Grey barked into the icy silence. "Lax!"
The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precisely the effect Grey must have intended. It shocked Nan for a split second into a state of not-thinking, just being-
Suddenly, all in an instant she and Neville were one.
Mercedes Lackey
#36. 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
#37. I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.
Jacqueline Woodson
#38. Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.
Douchan Gersi
#39. 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
#40. I'm writing a love poem," I answer without thinking. Then I slam my lips together, realizing what I've done.
Dead silence crashes over the kitchen.
Elle Kennedy
#41. Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction ...
Alanis Morissette
#42. Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.
Irvine Welsh
#43. You might be a redneck if you think Silence of the Lambs is what happens when Larry walks out to the barn.
Jeff Foxworthy
#44. Thinking belongs to duality. Love belongs to the Oneness. There is no thought without judgment, there is no Unconditional Love without the silence of the mind.
Human Angels
#45. I think He intends to try you like gold in the crucible, so as to number you amongst His most faithful servants. Therefore you must lovingly embrace all occasions of suffering, considering them as precious tokens of His love. To suffer in silence and without complaint is what He asks of you.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
#46. Two versions of the same face looking into blank screens, two very different minds thinking of things unsaid. Sometimes love is in silence.
Roger Zelazny
#47. Angels live no place, as God lives no place. They live in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings of silence, pushed to angelic acts ...
Sophy Burnham
#48. Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.
Thomas Metzinger
#49. I think political correctness really does help us when it serves us but it doesn't help us when it silences us.
Margaret Cho
#50. May, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. (233)
Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen. (278)
Jacqueline Woodson
#51. You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.
Andrew Schneider
#52. I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.
Christopher Hitchens
#53. Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space
it makes connections.
E.L. Konigsburg
#54. Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think.
Lee Child
#55. I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning, but at the same time a kind of feeling like you wanted to get back into the closet because being gay was such a terrible thing at that point.
Margaret Cho
#56. I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.
Albert Einstein
#57. Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity
Janet Robertson
#58. To think is to have doubt ... yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought" ... eventually.
Vivian Amis
#59. I keep thinking
That poetry is something else:
A form of love that exists only in silence,
In a secret place between two people,
Almost always between two strangers
Jose Emilio Pacheco
#60. Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.
Darrel Ray
#61. We sit in silence for a minute. Thinking about the freedom we don't have and the future we can't control.
Chelsea Fine
#62. ... 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
#63. It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
Isabel Allende
#64. A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.
Alan Ayckbourn
#65. You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.
Grenville Kleiser
#66. Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
Sri Aurobindo
#67. When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
Ramana Maharshi
#68. I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.
Madonna Ciccone
#69. Silence. I hate silence. Silence means thinking and thinking means judgement.
Katie McGarry
#70. When you walk, try to think nothing! You can then obtain the silence of a streetlight or a bridge; stop thinking; after that, you become all you see!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
James Russell Lowell
#72. I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across the bridge or the way silence can thin or thicken before music starts - all these things have to be harnessed by the political. The libidinal has to be harnessed by the political.
Ben Lerner
#73. When doctrines divide and "isms" turn human against human, without speech, without silence, let us demonstrate. Let these demonstrations manifest everywhere. Not what we think or say but what we do shall avail - on with the dance.
Samuel L. Lewis
#74. Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.
Ajahn Brahm
#75. Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. When she quieted the jet engine buzz of worries assaulting her brain, when she stopped thinking altogether and just felt, she knew this was right. Feeling the silence of peace and conviction was so foreign to her she wasn't even sure what to do with it.
Erin McCarthy
#77. I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.
Mack Brown
#78. People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#79. The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.
Eckhart Tolle
#80. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.
Washington Irving
#81. Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.
John Larroquette
#82. Galaxy, he hated them! He stopped himself, drew a firm breath...There was no use thinking hate...He had learned to bear in silence. He ought not forget what he had learned now. Of all times, not now.
Isaac Asimov
#83. I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.
Marina Abramovic
#84. As long as we take thought, we will continue to matter.
Vivian Amis
#85. Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears.
Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence.
And the night continued, cold and dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains.
You Jin
#86. Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.
Rajneesh
#88. It's funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever sad. All the words. Starting from your very first one.
Colleen Hoover
