Silence Quotes · Page 137

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?

— Anonymous

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

— Ben Hecht

“The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

— Henry David Thoreau

“People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world." "-In Pursuit of Silence”

— Lessing

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

— Lord Byron

You know you have a great friendship when the silence between you doesn't bother.

— Anonymous

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

— Thomas Carlyle

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

— Thomas Jefferson

...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something…

— Muriel Barbery

Democrats know 'racism' doesn't exist, but they use it to silence white conservatives and to instill fear in blacks and motivate them…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

“My love grows wings, A lost bird in an unfamiliar sky, In my dreams your voice still rings, But here the silence…

— Natalie Miller

There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how,when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the…

— John Wycliffe

Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to sit over here with my throbbing feet and bleed in silence until we get…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

— Sam Mendes

Any day above ground is a good one. A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way.…

— Donald E. Williams, Jr

“Silence and twilight fell over the garden. Far away the sea was lapping gently and monotonously on the bar. The wind of…

— L.M. Montgomery

“the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced…

— Thomas Hardy

“When we still our mind and stroll through the human landscapes around us, we can see astounding images sneaking from undisclosed places,…

— Erik Pevernagie

This gathered worship, as Quakers call it, is not only absence of noise. Gathered worship springs from the reverent, silent expectation that…

— Anonymous

We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand,…

— Albert Camus

Internalize the vagrant mind and fix it in the Lord. Then the meditation will be profound and intense. Don't open the eyes.…

— Sivananda

The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence…

— Mother Teresa

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

— Fernand Braudel

SPEAK only when you feel your words are better than the SILENCE

— Anonymous

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

— Jean Baudrillard

I love just watching movies, or long car rides in silence. I love just being close to someone. I love the proximity.

— Ethel Cain

Silence has an important role in conversation. It's the only part when you have the chance to listen.

— Bernajoy Vaal

“People used to suffer in silence. Now they just go on talkshows.”

— DON'T REMEMBER

Blessed are the ears that hear the pulse of the divine whisperer, and give no heed to the many whisperings of the…

— Thomas Kempis

“We sit in silence, the air between bristling with words unsaid.”

— Christina Baker Kline

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

— Paulo Coelho

A quiet man is usually a thinking man. A quiet woman is usually mad.

— Anonymous

“Silence had weight. And in that moment, it was heavier than both of them could carry.”

— Janus Lucky

“True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.”

— Amit Ray

After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)

— Frank Beddor

'Tis the little rift within the lute - That by and by will make the music mute, And, ever widening, slowly silence…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“They didn't speak a word, but it was still their best conversation in a long time.”

— Katrina Kittle

And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.

— Eoin Colfer