Understand Your Silence Quotes

#1. Who cannot understand your silence, cannot understand your words.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Elbert Hubbard

#3. Love has value even though we can't measure it. Silence has meaning even though we can't understand it.

Debasish Mridha

#4. The beautiful are found in the edge of a room
crumpled into spiders and needles and silence
and we can never understand why they
left,they were so
beautiful.
they dont make it,
the beautiful die young
and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.

Charles Bukowski

#5. How devastating it is to be thought of as arrogant. Surely, we have known each other long enough and well enough, for her to understand that my silence only reflects my sense of trust and satisfaction.

Barbara Hodgson

#6. Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence.
"There is much I don't understand."
"That will never change," Mortis said decisively. "Except that what you don't understand will change.

John Barnes

#7. Silence is a time of reflection to bring peace and meaning to your life, and to those around you. This deafening quiescence will mean different things to different people but if they listen carefully, they will understand...

Virginia Alison

#8. Fools believe silence is a void needing to be filled; the wise understand there's no such thing as silence.

Michael J. Sullivan

#9. I should have said something ... But my mouth wouldn't open, and the longer I stood there in silence, the better I can to understand the problem. It wasn't that I had nothing to say to him. It was that I had too much to say.

Rachel Vincent

#10. I think I understand. Why all great things are sad. Why silence aches. Why people lose their way.

Ella James

#11. If you don,t understand my silence . How you will understand my words.

MINE

#12. There's nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may discover that in silence, complete understanding is already there.

Steve Hagen

#13. Silence is the language of the cosmos. From the smallest stone to the sun itself, they all communicate through silence, greatly rich with meaning and deep, very deep. In order to understand it, we need to have a special mind.

Anu Lal

#14. A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.

Sheila Walsh

#16. Crash studied her. Sometimes he seemed to understand her silence better than her words.

T.L. Shreffler

#17. Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in relation to the lives of others: silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence.

Thomas Merton

#18. In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with greater clarity what it is we want to say and what we expect from others; and we choose how to express ourselves.

Pope Benedict XVI

#19. Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the unmanifested.

Eckhart Tolle

#20. If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?

Ravi Zacharias

#21. I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.

Rabindranath Tagore

#22. Listen to the song of silence to understand the unsung music of the heart.

Debasish Mridha

#23. When you are able to understand the language of silence, you will be able to see the beauty of the invisible.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Listen in silence to the whisper of the winds so that you may understand the song of your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace

Paramahansa Yogananda

#26. Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.

Galileo Galilei

#27. All human beings go through a previous life ... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

Honore De Balzac

#28. You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.

Oswald Chambers

#29. Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.

Yasmin Mogahed

#30. It's a rule when you're welcomed in the Marvel family that you have to understand that you're going to be living in a code of silence.

Maurissa Tancharoen

#31. I talked for hours, and people listened because they hated the silence too. They were happy to create it, and then terrified by what they made. And so I came to understand the split at the root of the soul of all men.

Aliya Whiteley

#32. So many of his problems were of a kind that other people did not understand, that he got used to working them out for himself, in silence.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#33. The language of the universe comes not from the voice but from the primordial silence. You can understand it by enhancing your feelings.

Debasish Mridha

#34. In general, silence often reflects ambiguity on the part of the listener as the observer wishes to understand the other's experience.

Sandra Leanne Bosacki

#35. She'll never understand the shyness of Sophie's words or the silence of her beauty.

Markus Zusak

#36. Have lots of plants in your house. Nature and plants understand something about stillness and silence. As you interact with the green world, you will find a peace will enter your life.

Frederick Lenz

#37. If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet ... maybe we could understand something.

Federico Fellini

#38. Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

Wallace Stevens

#39. 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

#40. After seeing how many people waste their lives, their whole lives (tongues wagging, wagging, wagging, and all the inevitable consequences), silence seems preferable to me, and more necessary than ever. And I well understand, Lord, why we have to give an account of all our idle words.

Josemaria Escriva

#41. Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#42. How do you compete with a ghost, Colton?" I whisper the question into a long silence.
He shrugs. "I don't know. You don't. You just understand that there's a part of you that you can't give away, because it belongs to a dead person. I don't know.

Jasinda Wilder

#43. When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#44. In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence

Bei Dao

#45. I'm a virgin, okay?"
There was a moment of silence while I assume he was struggling to understand the connection. Then he spoke.
"I'm not prejudiced against anyone.

Candice Raquel Lee

#46. Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are hints that God is giving us, signs of the attention he has for each one of us.

Pope Benedict XVI

#47. In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

Sarah Orne Jewett

#48. Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.

Wong Kar-Wai