Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian…

“Learning the value of silence is learning to listen to, instead of screaming at, reality”

— Monks of New Skete

Learning the value of silence is learning to listen to, instead of screaming at, reality: opening your mind enough to find what the end…

— Monks Of New Skete

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

— Henri Nouwen

Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you…

— Norton Juster

“Let him tell them the truth. Before the Gospel is a word, it is silence. It is the silence of their own lives and…

— Frederick Buechner

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

— Henri Nouwen

Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're heading for Awkward Avenue.

— Meg Cabot

Fools, said I, you do not know, silence like a cancer grows.

— Simon And Garfunkel

“Have the maturity to know sometimes silence is more powerful than having the last word”

— Thema Davis

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or…

— Ellis Peters

We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry,…

— Gabrielle Giffords

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll…

— Samuel Beckett

“I didn't know silence could be that loud.”

— Nicole Williams

“So many of the blemished didn’t know what to do with silence. Sunny’d learned that well enough at the coffee shop, where people insisted…

— Megan Hart

“And a man said, speak to us of self-knowledge. and he answered, saying: Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and…

— Kahlil Gibran