Top 100 Silences Quotes
#2. By day the hot sun fermented us; and we were dizzied by the beating wind. At night we were stained by dew, and shamed into pettiness by the innumerable silences of stars.
T.E. Lawrence
#3. The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
Jay Griffiths
#4. Life laughs at predictions and introduces words where we imagined silences, and sudden returns when we thought we would never see each other again.
Jose Saramago
#5. There are many kinds of silences and not all signify absence or vacancy....Those moments are but temporary ebbs before the flow of meaning rushes in to fill the space....God may be speaking 'in ways we have yet to recognize as speech.
Terryl L. Givens
#6. If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.
Neale Donald Walsch
#7. I can worry myself into a state of spiritual ennui over questions like "What good does it do to pray if God already knows everything?" Jesus silences such questions: he prayed, so should we.
Philip Yancey
#8. For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.
Kahlil Gibran
#9. I'm a complete control freak. We worked a lot on the pace and where to put the silences. We choreographed the gestures and movements. We had a lot of rehearsals and a lot of takes. Also, there's something special that comes out of those two actors: he's water and she's fire.
Eran Kolirin
#10. Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul.
Kahlil Gibran
#11. The God of Scales and Silences is not sick," said the mouse. The others joined in with nods and sounds of rodent agreement. "He is damaged, yes, and will need Tender Care and perhaps Kisses for his Boo-Boos, but he is not sick.
Seanan McGuire
#12. New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.
Alison Fell
#13. The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
Antoine Rivarol
#14. European music is passionately savage, broken by long silences.
David Mitchell
#15. What's beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.
Dawn Olivieri
#16. The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.
Gloria Steinem
#18. In the silences I make in the midst of the turmoil of life I have appointments with God. From these silences I come forth with spirit refreshed, and with a renewed sense of power. I hear a voice in the silences, and become increasingly aware that it is the voice of God.
David Brainerd
#19. No one says anything. We've hit into one of those weird silences that happen when someone drops something too real into the middle of a conversation that should just have been about drinking and patting ourselves on the back.
Richard Kadrey
#20. This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining.
Michael Cunningham
#21. Beneath the conversations and silences and reconnecting intimacy, I tried to reconcile the adult Hardy had become with the boy I had known and longed for. It troubled me to realize they weren't the same ... but of course I wasn't the same either.
Lisa Kleypas
#22. Fear strives for popularity, favor, and success in ways that are damaging to our soul. Fear goes around banging on pots and intimidating us by being noisy and pushy. Fear silences us until we lose our voice, if ever we had one. We
T.H. Meyer
#23. Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
Dan Simmons
#24. God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
Oswald Chambers
#25. If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.
Alison Weir
#26. Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#27. Author refers to, short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.
Thomas Hughes
#28. Watching a complex stitch pattern grow as I knit silences the voice in my head that tells me to sweep the floor. I imagine dust bunnies are knitting themselves together under my chair.
Debbie Macomber
#29. That's what it was: those little silences that slipped into their conversations like splinters, his need reaching out through the air and finding her, cold. That's what had changed between them.
Kea Wilson
#30. Back in our silences and sullen looks,
for all the Scotch we drink, what's still between us
not the thirty or so years, but books, books, books.
Tony Harrison
#31. There are some silences that even words cannot drive away.
Patrick Rothfuss
#32. Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.
Robin Gibb
#33. Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.
Will Youmans
#34. How lovely they were, those long summer nights: the words and the silences, the sunsets and the stars.
Polly Samson
#35. Insert the biggest, most awkward silence in the history of big awkward silences.
Cynthia Hand
#36. But the sun will rise the day after tomorrow
A millennium without us silences our last echo
To tiny fragments even our plastics are reduced
In Eden Reincarnate all life but ours is renewed
A.A. Patawaran
#37. Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than
anything else.
Peter Ackroyd
#38. I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.
Caroline Myss
#39. What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
Audre Lorde
#40. Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
Richard Rohr
#41. I and my silences keep talking to each other.
Avijeet Das
#42. That is the end of absence - the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished.
Anonymous
#43. Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.
Emmi Itaranta
#44. Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
Isabel Allende
#45. I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
Virginia Woolf
#46. It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal
carries the cross of the redeemer
not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.
Joseph Campbell
#47. I'm used to people talking, saying words aloud to prove they know more than me, that they're better than me. But they're just words. Syllables strung together between breaths to fill uncomfortable silences.
Meaningless words.
Katie McGarry
#48. One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one's actions, and that includes one's words and silences, yes, one's silences, because silences rise to heaven too, and God hears them, and only God understands and judges them, so one must be very careful with one's silences.
Roberto Bolano
#49. There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.
Sinead O'Connor
#50. They don't have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.
David Levithan
#52. When I compare my slow and unprofitable life with the frequent and wonderful mercies received, it shames me, it silences me, and leaves me inexcusable.
Richard Baxter
#53. She was like the dust that clung to his shirt. She was in the silences that had become so frequent at the house, silences that welled up between their words, sometimes cold and hollow, sometimes pregnant with things that went unsaid, like a cloud filled with rain that never fell.
Khaled Hosseini
#54. Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.
Erica Jong
#55. Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?
Tan Twan Eng
#56. The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.
Franz Wright
#57. The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
Audre Lorde
#58. I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain.
Yasunari Kawabata
#59. Why do silences mean something different when we're with different people? With you, it's never awkward, is it? It's just silence. But with other people, I feel the need to fill it with inane ramblings. What's wrong with silence?
Holly Martin
#60. There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.
Michel Foucault
#61. My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.
Bernard Moitessier
#63. The child who feels your respect
during silences is nourished more
than the child who is constantly
fussed and chattered over.
Vimala McClure
#64. It was one of those silences that was far more eloquent than words.
Lisa Kleypas
#65. I find the dead easier to be around than the dying. They are not in pain, not afraid of death. There are no awkward silences and conversations that dance around the obvious. They aren't scary...Cadavers, once you get used to them--and you do that quite fast--are surprisingly easy to be around.
Mary Roach
#67. Even the silences seemed infused with a secret knowledge. We held hands as we walked around the moon and it felt right and it felt good. I had never felt anything like that before.
Andersen Prunty
#68. All of our children are prey. How do we raise them not to prey upon themselves and each other? And this is why we cannot be silent, because our silences will come to testify against us out of the mouths of our children.
Audre Lorde
#69. A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore his brother's clothes, smoked the cigars his brother had liked, and imitated his mannerisms.
Thurston Clarke
#70. Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence.
Mark Helprin
#71. The words make our silences easier
they're the current that runs under them.
Sue Miller
#73. I don't say anything. I know the power of silence. I remember my dad saying nothing and I remember his silences more vividly than I remember the things he said.
Caroline Kepnes
#74. Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.
Henry Steele Commager
#75. There were silences as murmurous as sound. There were pauses that seemed about to shatter and were only to be snatched back to oblivion by the tightening of his arms about her and the sense that she was resting there as a caught, gossamer feather, drifted in out of the dark.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#76. Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.
Pierre Coupey
#77. When the communal silences the individual, every essence within the individual is silenced.
Dew Platt
#78. And only when that happens do you realise just how much silence there really is. Silence between lovers, when something really needs to be said; silence from a parent when a child needs some word more than anything else in the world; silences and in betweens and everything which isn't an answer.
Michael Marshall Smith
#79. He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.
Martina Cole
#80. The silences between us would've been better if they were colored with sadness or regret, but it was worse - I could hear how happy he was to be gone.
Emma Cline
#81. Somewhere a dog barked. With the help of fear and echoes and winter silences, that dog had a voice like a big bronze gong.
Kurt Vonnegut
#82. I think sometimes the biggest influence isn't what's present in your life, but what's absent.
Those missing pieces that shape you and change you, the silences that are louder than the noise.
Margo Rabb
#84. It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.
Arthur Rimbaud
#85. More is said in silences than words ever could.
Avijeet Das
#86. The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.
Bob Newhart
#87. Numbing the pain never goes to the source of the real issue to make us healthier. It only silences our screaming need for help.
Lysa TerKeurst
#88. Anyone who silences someone else because they believe the other person's opinion is false assumes infallibility. They must be absolutely certain that they are correct on the matter.
Nigel Warburton
#89. I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
Fernando Pessoa
#90. I remember having a friend overnight, and lots of giggling after the lights were out. And seemingly long silences followed by "Are you asleep yet?" and, sometimes, some pretty serious discussions about God and Life.
Joe Brainard
#91. You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.
Frederick Buechner
#92. One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.
John O'Donohue
#93. Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.
Cecelia Ahern
#94. I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
Audre Lorde
#95. The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
Edwin Markham
#96. Sometimes, I just wanted my silences to stay silent, full of thoughts, empty of words.
Maggie Stiefvater
#97. If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.
Nick Cave
#98. We live between the two great silences: the silence that existed before the world began, and the silence that waits for us at the end of all things.
Lena Coakley
#100. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
Arthur Rimbaud
