Silence Quotes - page 5

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. (Anthony de Mello)
The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. View quote
Clarice Lispector
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought.... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. View quote
Clarice Lispector
Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy. View quote
Taylor Swift
It is never so difficult to speak as when we are ashamed of our silence. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. View quote
Edith Wharton
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted. View quote
Bob Monkhouse
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. View quote
Mother Teresa
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. View quote
Oscar Wilde
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions. View quote
Deepak Chopra
If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play. (Alice Cooper)
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation. View quote
Václav Havel
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. View quote
John Muir
we can make our minds so still like water. That beings gather about us to see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even with a fiercer life because of silence. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon silence. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. View quote
Paul Simon
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. View quote
Haile Selassie
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. (Plutarch)
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters
Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care. View quote
Sandra Fluke
Silence is the severest criticism. View quote
Charles Buxton