Silence Quotes · Page 78

Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.

— Samuel Beckett

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

— Anne Bronte

The world suffers a lot, Not because of the violence of bad people, But because of the silence of good people!

— Anonymous

“There was a silence. Hannah's own heart was twisted with the force of her love for him. Her eyes were full.”

— L.J. Smith

“For a long time we sit there not saying anything, enjoying the quiet of the bay and the occasional steamy knee bump.”

— Lisa Daily

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

— Sarah Dessen

To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

— Laurence Overmire

“I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.”

— Tagore

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than…

— Terry Pratchett

With silence I hear things louder. When I close my eyes I see things clearer. When I let go and just empty…

— Victoria

My biggest regret is that I let days pass by, without telling you how much you meant to me. Giving up on…

— Anne Dawn

She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the…

— Philip Pullman

“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the…

— James Rozoff

“I ate in the silence and drank my coffee and looked occasionally at Susan’s picture on my desk. Let us be true…

— Robert B. Parker

Not a whisper, the only noise is the receiver, I'm counting the seconds until you break the silence, so please just break…

— Secondhand Serenade

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers…

— Grenville Kleiser

If I'm walking down the street, and if a person abuses me, the dignified thing to do is to keep walking, but…

— Hrithik Roshan

“First, observe and ponder, and then use silence to speak, and then speak through words, then take action to correct something; make…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“On the thought a blessed silence came, an empty clarity. He took it a first for utter desolation, but desolation was a…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“So I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of…

— Samuel Beckett

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

Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of…

— Glen Duncan

Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert…

— Rajneesh

Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.

— Tom Robbins

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

— Cato the Younger

There's an unspoken understanding that comes when you communicate through nothing but pure silence.

— Dru Stone

Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.

— Max Lucado

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

— Anonymous

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.

— Suzanne Curchod

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The only answer that I give to you is doing it," he said. "A just request is to be met in silence,…

— Dante Alighieri

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

— Thomas Carlyle

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

— Blaise Pascal

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

— Horace

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

— Annie Dillard

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

— Ray Charles

Silence is the absolute core of reality, the inner nature of all that is.

— Swami Premodaya

“Silence is friendship and love, interior harmony and peace. Silence and peace have one and the same heartbeat.”

— Robert Sarah