Silence Quotes · Page 123

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

— Arthur Erickson

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

— Jeri Ryan

“Down in this hell, silence was more than golden; it was the difference between life and death.”

— Chanda Hahn

He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

— Sandra Bullock

But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?

— Libba Bray

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

— Anonymous

“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like…

— Erica Sehyun Song

Imagination They say adults have no imagination. Not true. Just instead of dinosaurs and spaceships, they imagine silence and the new babysitter…

— Anonymous

“Children need to learn that silence is the home of spirit. All other voices speak out loud, but spirit communicates without making…

— Deepak Chopra

I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long…

— P. J. O'Rourke

But even in the schoolyard I'd been aware of that silence, that reserve in him, as though he'd been raised by foxes…

— Anonymous

“The silence in the room was so unusually quiet that the beginning of it seemed rather loud when the utter stillness of…

— Flann O'Brien

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small…

— Johan Huizinga

“I stayed silent when I should have screamed. I gave love when I should have walked away. And still, they blamed me.…

— Garima Soni

George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expression. He leaned forwar, and,…

— Ilona Andrews

“There are many Beth's in the world, who and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully, that…

— Louisa May Alcott

“After seeing how many people waste their lives, their whole lives (tongues wagging, wagging, wagging, and all the inevitable consequences), silence seems…

— Josemaría Escrivá

But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have…

— Junot Diaz

I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more…

— Mara Wilson

Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts…

— Nancy Mairs

I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows…

— Félix J. Palma

I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and…

— Laura Schlessinger

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

— Susan Sontag

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

— Elizabeth I

At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.

— Sigurd F. Olson

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

— Edmund Burke

“Quiet is really just a lot of small noises that most people don’t notice.”

— Robert Dunbar

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

— Agnes de Mille

“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”

— William Penn

Sometimes you can define a composition or a couple of notes by the silence that goes around it.

— Steve Tibbetts

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

— Mike Nichols

“You stood by their side while they stabbed you in silence.”

— Garima Soni

They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

— Erin Morgenstern

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

— Marianne Williamson

The Divine flow that wants to move through me requires stillness.

— Frank Baron

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

— Nicholas Sparks

I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

— Umar

Patience and Silence are Powerful Energies. Patience makes us Mentally Strong; Silence makes us Emotionally Strong.

— Vikas Runwal