Silence Quotes · Page 136

my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.

— Charles Bukowski

“The law of unintended consequences rules, often with deadly silence.”

— Richard B. McKenzie

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

— Cameron Diaz

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

— Anne Lamott

“There is nothing worse than an awkward silence between two people who’ve never experienced it before.”

— Suzanne Palmieri

Sometimes your silence speaks volumes and can be misinterpreted as approval, when none was even meant.

— Anonymous

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

— Geoffrey Madan

There's No Such Thing as a Bad Meditation. Any Time you Spend in Silence is Valuable

— Wayne Dyer

“And slowly a discussion begins - as Morrie has wanted all along - about the effect of silence on human relations. Why…

— Mitch Albom

My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds…

— Bernard Moitessier

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences…

— Seneca the Younger

Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his…

— T. S. Eliot

“What did you say to me Itsy? The day when you broke your silence?" Itsy shrugged and shuffled back into her own…

— Suzanne Palmieri

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big…

— Gloria Estefan

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of…

— Anonymous

“For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean'…

— Stanislaw Lem

“Silence is a powerful and magical tool capable of providing you most of the things you really need. Silence is not an…

— Vishwanath

Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the…

— Pope Benedict XVI

A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind. Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast.…

— Virginia Woolf

At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one…

— Rick Springfield

“The other day a monk told me, 'The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring…

— William Shakespeare

I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.

— Cristina Garcia

“But the silence in her husband's ear was never more to be broken.”

— George Eliot

“I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.”

— George R.R. Martin

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Never mistake my silence for my weakness.Nobody plans a murder out loud.

— Anonymous

A lot of girls keep their feels to themselves because they're tired of pouring their hearts out to the wrong guy.

— Anonymous

“Kyoko sniffs, unable to speak. Sometimes saying nothing means most of all.”

— Sandy Fussell

“Never silence your testimony. It's meant for someone else; not you.”

— Asia Mouzone

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Silence is a kind of art. If you are an artist in your silence, you will be a genius in your words.

— Anonymous

“[First Line} It’s quiet here. But then again, it’s supposed to be quiet.”

— Alex Diaz-Granados

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

— Marilu Henner

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

— James Martineau