Top 100 The Silence Quotes
#1. There is nothing, she would think, more delicious that the icing of bought chocolate cake, eaten in the silence and privacy of the night.
Fay Weldon
#2. Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.
Amy Goodman
#3. Sometimes I thought of Him as a cloud in the sky; ... sometimes as simply an enormous white light. Whatever the image, I would imagine Him close to me. And then I would wait, listening to my breath, until the silence came. And I would mutter: I give myself to You.
Ayad Akhtar
#4. What do you do? I asked the man, to break the silence shooting up around me on all sides, thick as jungle grass
Sylvia Plath
#5. The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world.
Thomas Merton
#6. The silence after a felled tree has fallen is like the silence immediately after a death. The same sense of culmination.
John Berger
#7. Whenever you feel me,
just call me
With the silence of your soul,
and with the softness of your love.
I will be with you,
With the magic of my love.
You may not see me,
But you will feel me.
You will hear my song
In the depth of your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#8. And there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast. Five, four, three, two, one.
Nelson DeMille
#9. To hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance
Mabel Collins
#10. I paint the darkness and the silence,
You see them as stars and poetry.
Jenim Dibie
#11. Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile ... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett
#13. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man writhed.
He felt that he had been stopped short.
Victor Hugo
#14. She loved to talk. All I need do was provide the silence.
Robin Hobb
#15. I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.
Rick Yancey
#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. The stars are God's dreams, thoughts remembered in the silence of his night.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.
Ian Fleming
#19. I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett
#20. But the silence in her husband's ear was never more to be broken.
George Eliot
#21. The future exists only in our imagination
it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express
that can only happen when you and I are willing to enter the emptiness
listening in the silence
until we can begin to create a future we can befriend.
Dawna Markova
#22. She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.
Paulo Coelho
#23. Dare to Dream
Yes, if you can dare to dream.
Surely you can catch the sunlight's beam.
While all else seems to fail.
Truth shall forever prevail.
(Copyright excerpts from the poem and published poetry book 'From the Silence Within
Madhavi Sood
#24. I don't know what to say to fill the silence. I don't know how to fix this. It seems wrong to leave him, but I have to. There's no compromise, no alternative. Things just weren't meant to be, which seems like a pansy-ass thing to say, until it happens to you.
H.M. Ward
#25. A stream cut across the grass, and tree branches flowed low to the ground, like a curtain of green fluid. The sound of the water stressed the silence. The distant cut of open sky made the place seem more hidden. Far above, on the crest of a hill, one tree caught the first rays of sunlight.
Ayn Rand
#26. I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.
Billy Childish
#27. In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?
Rumi
#28. Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.
John Cage
#29. The rain still drummed on the roof, like fine needles striking the shingles. The family sat silently around the table, each one wrapped in their own thoughts.
It was Matthew's voice that broke the silence, asking, "And what happened after that?"
"After that," said Paul, "came Gettysburg.
Elisabeth Grace Foley
#30. Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#31. What is the silence of six and what are you going to do about?
E.C. Myers
#32. Music repairs us when it breaks the silence.
Gwen Calvo
#33. 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
#34. The world suffers a lot.not because of the violence of bad people .but because of the silence of good people
Napoleon Bonaparte
#35. That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.
M.L. Stedman
#36. Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.
Alice Meynell
#37. 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
#38. I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
Soren Kierkegaard
#39. In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
Elizabeth Peters
#40. I left them there for the flies and the birds and the sun and the wind. In the silence outside the Tour du Silence, I left them. Where the faceless dead faced the sky, I left them there at the center of the world.
Rick Yancey
#41. There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.
Philippe Djian
#42. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, - Listen and do not hear - the tongue moves but does not speak ... I want you to pray for me - that I let Him have free hand.
Mother Teresa
#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. Fear is not the absence of Faith but the Silence of Faith.
Evans Biya
#45. When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
Bruce Jackson
#46. How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very name of wilderness, which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it.
Estwick Evans
#47. The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today ...
... some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#49. The proximity between the four of us could be measured with a shoe lace but the silence suggests a meadow.
Anonymous
#50. Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's something about that song that's really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up.
Dave Gahan
#51. We stand there, knee deep in the water, holding hands. The silence is thunderous with words we don't speak. I feel his presence beside me like it's an extension of my own body, tall and strong and so, so beautiful. But I can't look at him. Right now, it hurts too damn much.
Nicole Christie
#52. Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.
Nhat Hanh
#53. 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
#54. In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason ?
R.S. Thomas
#55. The silence rings - it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible - I hear the unspeakable.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. And the silence, it cuts me. The silence, it gores me,
Spilling my blood as the rain falls on me.
Excerpt from "Silence
Angela B. Chrysler
#57. It's silence that I want to hear. That single instance where a person is bare and pure and doesn't know how to feel. the silence that follows. That's all.
Peter Tieryas
#58. The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.
Johnny Rich
#59. The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it
Ted Trueblood
#60. If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.
Sathya Sai Baba
#61. Embrace the shadows ... Breathe the silence ... Be ordinary, be invisible ... Mark the man ... Know every out ...
Brent Weeks
#62. Even when you are silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. Mine is not. It is the silence that drives me mad. The silence that drives the nightmares to me. Because
Beth Revis
#64. Love needs expression, Captain Geary, or doubts grow amid the silence. Doubts of the other and doubts of yourself.
Jack Campbell
#65. The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
Franz Kafka
#67. The chains and the silence, which should have bound her deep within herself, which should have smothered her, strangled her, on the contrary freed her from herself.
Pauline Reage
#68. When he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.
Charles Dickens
#69. Dead.
Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths.
Melanie Cusick-Jones
#70. The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.
Orhan Pamuk
#71. To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: Loneliness is a type of violence.
Jonathan Messinger
#72. The silence of a mountain has the tranquility and serenity of peace.
Debasish Mridha
#74. Every person interprets the silence that surrounds him or her. The eternal silence of the universe that we exist in is terrifying because it forces each of to ask what our purpose is, why are we here, and what should I do?
Kilroy J. Oldster
#75. The moment I stopped being angry,the moment the silence filled my ears like water, was the moment I wanted to die,too.
Kristin Halbrook
#76. You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.
Helene Cardona
#77. But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps
deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.
Thomas Harris
#78. Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.
Veronica Roth
#79. Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal.
Rafael Yglesias
#80. The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.
David Whyte
#81. The silence encompassing the feeling so juvenile, veiling everything but a sham smile.
Parul Agrawal
#82. I try whistling to fill in the silence. The soprano sax from Coltrane's "My Favorite Things," though of course my dubious whistling doesn't come anywhere near the complex, lightning-quick original. I just add bits so what I hear in my head approximates the sound. Better than nothing, I figure.
Haruki Murakami
#83. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap.
Alan Moore
#84. Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
Pablo Neruda
#85. The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#86. Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.
Matthew Kelly
#87. He thought of asking her, but for no reason he could name, the silence between them seemed too hard to break.
Leah Stewart
#88. the silence people, hear everything.
Silence
#89. I had a thought," Bradshaw said into the silence.
"Amazing," Tristan returned dryly.
Suzanne Enoch
#90. The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than all other silence.
Thomas De Quincey
#91. I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.
Frank D. Gilroy
#92. The silence gets us nowhere, nowhere way to fast
Staind
#95. Destroy the Spineless. Show me it's real. Wasting our last chance to come away. Just break the silence 'cos I'm drifting away, away from you..."
~New Born
Matthew J. Bellamy
#96. The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.
Eugene H. Peterson
#97. It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.
Kenneth Patchen
#98. Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls.
Michael Bedard
#99. If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history.
James P. Carse
#100. Love is never silent; it is spoken in every moment and even in the silence it enfolds you and strengthens you
John Webber
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