The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. Votes: 1
Marianne MooreThe word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars. Votes: 1
Ursula K. Le GuinI saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence. Votes: 1
Thomas HoodLet the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out. Votes: 1
Lech WalesaIn the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here. Votes: 1
Daniel BarenboimSilence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron JakobovitsIt's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many
Martin Luther King, Jr.There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
Orlando Aloysius BattistaModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.
Martin Luther King, Jr.God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven't a single doubt.
Donald E. Williams, Jr.Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsIf you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
Stanislaw Jerzy LecSilence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
Barbara de AngelisWhen you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.
Gurumayi ChidvilasanandaIt is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.
Jeanette WintersonSometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
Miguel de UnamunoFor what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?
William Butler YeatsThe silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
William WordsworthYou can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.
Josemaria EscrivaSilence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
Katharine HepburnI cannot tell you anything that you don't already know, but it is known in silence.
Leonard JacobsonIn not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns.
Swami SatchidanandaThe voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
Francis QuarlesSilence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
Hazrat Inayat KhanSometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies
Lisa VanderpumpWhat emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.
Marianne WilliamsonSilence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.
Marianne WilliamsonSilence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
Ramana MaharshiPreach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
St. Catherine of SienaEach soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.
Charles Alexander EastmanThe silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.
Joseph CurialeThe SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
Martin Luther King, Jr.Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.
Wallace StevensDo not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.
Ali ibn Abi TalibBut in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.
Ilya KaminskyIf music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.
Keith JarrettDawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.
Patrick RothfussSpeech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.
Isaac of NinevehThrough the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.
Paramahansa YoganandaSilence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.
Tahar DjaoutI must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.
Will Christopher BaerYou have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
Arthur Conan DoyleListen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
Catherine DohertyI have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Henry David ThoreauHarry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.
J. K. RowlingWithin the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable.
Jane HirshfieldA painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
Keith RichardsThere is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence.
Nicholas UdallIt is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.
Sarah Orne JewettThe music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
Saul WilliamsWhen mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
Sri AurobindoSilence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
Alphonse de LamartineSilence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.
Benjamin DisraeliNothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
Charles de Gaulle...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
Harriet Beecher StoweThe only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.
James OrbinskiWe should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.
Maurice Merleau-PontyCold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers
Maynard James KeenanYou are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
Pablo NerudaToday don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.
Paulo CoelhoThe nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonThe snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
Dean KoontzSilence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.
E. L. KonigsburgTo listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.
Eckhart TolleThe lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.
John ClimacusSilence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.
Martha GrimesBut my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
Maurice BlanchotWhen something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
Pamela RibonThen there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.
Pascal MercierThere comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.
Philippe DjianThe silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.
Sylvia PlathBut there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.
Thomas MertonHoly Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
Tullian TchividjianDo you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
Werner HerzogSilence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
William ShakespeareSilence has many advantagesâ¦I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
Barbara KingsolverShe extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
Jonathan Safran FoerHe says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
Laurie Halse AndersonAnd where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
Mark Z. DanielewskiThere is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
Randeep HoodaIn the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
Richard EderIn peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajThe silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?
Sri Nisargadatta MaharajSilence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.
Beryl MarkhamMonday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.
Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniOutside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E. M. ForsterThe world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
Elisabeth ElliotSilence not only lets you listen but to see things with much more clarity than you ever can.
Gopichand LagadapatiAs before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.
Jayne Anne PhillipsI like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.
Jim GaffiganThere is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
Jodi PicoultIf you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.
PythagorasWithin us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.
Robert BreaultThe time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.
August SpiesSilence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
Barbara de AngelisI chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.
Chen GuangchengThe silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined.
Elizabeth BowenA color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.
Emily DickinsonYou must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.
Eric ThomasSilence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.
Frank BeddorA bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
George R. R. MartinBehind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.
John O'DonohueSo great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.
Muriel SparkSeparating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.
Paolo GiordanoFriends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.
Pope Benedict XVIGod is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.
RajneeshSilence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSilence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.
Samuel BeckettSometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
Simone de BeauvoirTo me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
SophoclesThe ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
Brennan ManningI wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the seaâs consoling silence.
Cristina GarciaIn Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
Edmund MuskieA good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
Edward AbbeyI do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
Ernest HemingwayI hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.
Ferdinand MountWhen you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.
GangajiIntelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.
Ned RoremYou can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
Norton JusterEverything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
Philip RothThere was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.
Regina DomanEvery being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
Simone WeilThe voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
Cormac McCarthyWhen a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.
Jocelyn Murrayto hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance
Mabel CollinsWhen the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!
Mehmet Murat ildanSometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.
Steve TibbettsThe beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so.
Victor HugoWhat is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
William SaroyanIt is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
Albert CamusSee the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.
Archibald MacLeishWhat the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence.
Dan QuayleSpeech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.
Emily DickinsonIf there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.
Federico FelliniIf silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellSomething unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.
Mary RuefleBefore you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
Mother TeresaListen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
Mother TeresaThe Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.
Stella BensonA few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
Victor HugoWe wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.
Walter de La MareThere was nothing, just this deathly, terrible silence in the dark night with the stars overhead.
Eva HartAll beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.
James MartineauThe friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.
John ClimacusListen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!
Mehmet Murat ildanThe soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.
Peter of AlcantaraGo up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
Van MorrisonThere's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
Yasmin MogahedLeadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
Zainab SalbiWhere the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.
Amrita PritamConsider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
Cato the YoungerAll my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.
GamalielThe silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.
Henry David ThoreauWithin each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.
Jack KornfieldMaintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.
Michael ParentiIn the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.
Mother TeresaAdventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.
Pico IyerAmong the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.
Robert AdamsShame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
SophoclesSilence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartI think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
Albert EinsteinA great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,
Bernie KrauseSilence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.
James HerveyHad I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
Jane AustenSilence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.
Lord ChesterfieldNever be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.
Mack BrownWhen I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.
Mahatma GandhiOnly when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.
RajneeshThere is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.
Ray WinstoneI just can't, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed." " Caleb
Sherrilyn KenyonThere's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.
Ben HechtInstead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
Clarence DarrowWe must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.
Henri NouwenThe English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
Karel CapekA warrior of light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him.
Paulo CoelhoIf you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.
Ram DassI will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!
RumiIf we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
T. S. EliotWhere shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
T. S. EliotThe voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. Votes: 1 Karl A. Menninger
In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said 'looks like we're a couple of peeing Toms. His angry silence is something I'll never forget. Votes: 3 Tom Hanks
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. Votes: 1 Muhammad Ali
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence. Votes: 3 Stefan Molyneux
Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone. Votes: 3 Charles Alexander Eastman
A moment of silence is not inherently religious. Votes: 5 Sandra Day O'Connor
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. Votes: 1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Votes: 7 Marcus Tullius Cicero
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. Votes: 1 Dorothy Dix
Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing. Votes: 1 James Broughton
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. Votes: 1 Faith Baldwin
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. Votes: 1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Votes: 1 Andrea Bocelli
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. Votes: 4 Muhammad Ali
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. Votes: 1 Charles Caleb Colton
I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work. Votes: 4 Anne Lamott
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. Votes: 3 John Tillotson
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. Votes: 3 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
In the morning, celebrate the beauty and warmth of sun light,in the evening, celebrate the song of silence and love of night. Votes: 3 Debasish Mridha
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. Votes: 4 Paul Simon
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. Votes: 1 Plutarch
I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition. Votes: 1 Sharon Gless
Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart. Votes: 4 Pat Conroy
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom. Votes: 3 Myrtle Reed