Silence Quotes - page 4

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence. (Inayat Khan)
If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. View quote
George Eliot
What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. View quote
Joan Miró
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. View quote
Susan Sontag
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. View quote
Jean Arp
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. View quote
Cicero
Silence is so accurate. View quote
Mark Rothko
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence. View quote
Jack Kerouac
The silence was an intense roar. View quote
Jack Kerouac
All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon All night has the casement jessamine stirred To the dancers dancing in tune Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. View quote
Epictetus
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. View quote
Elie Wiesel
I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree. View quote
Elie Wiesel
We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. is soon forgotten, butlasts forever. View quote
Philip Pullman
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. View quote
Emil Cioran
Calumnies are answered best with silence. View quote
Ben Jonson
Every now and then, when you're onstage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live. View quote
Shelley Winters
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality. (William Wilberforce)
An horrible stilness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. View quote
John Dryden
People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? View quote
Lawrence Durrell