Silence Quotes · Page 121

“Plants and flowers taught me how to grow, by growing in secret and in silence.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“They sat so still that each of them might have been alone.”

— Joan G. Robinson

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

— Samuel Johnson

“All human loneliness can be filtered down in one way or another to the singular, tragic element of silence...”

— Nettie Magnan

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

— Sylvia Plath

“One of the best things about being deaf is that you can't hear anyone talking smack about you.”

— Ashley Fiorek

Always be silent and smiling because silence protects you from future problems and smile from your past ones.

— Fadi

I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out…

— Chrissie Hynde

“I think we should always remember that reading -- the experience of a book -- is a very private, very personal kind…

— Lloyd Alexander

The time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us today... ...some of us who have already begun to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.”

— Artur Schnabel

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to…

— Deepak Chopra

When you awaken in morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circle flight, I am soft stars…

— Mary Elizabeth Frye

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence,…

— Peter Handke

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

— William Shatner

“See, what you do here is you work yourself away from the words, slowly shedding them until there's no more need of…

— Lynda Rutledge

“I had a day when I was busy in the world, where the activity created a turmoil on the surface of my…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with divine pleasure.…

— Pat Conroy

You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire,…

— Anonymous

It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love.…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which…

— Martha Gellhorn

“He interrupted her with a kiss, an embrace, a touch, caresses and then with everything, his whole being, his every thought, his…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

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

— Monks Of New Skete

“He fell silent, a silence with edges like broken glass that scraped across her heart.”

— Sondra Allan Carr

Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“The eternal silence of these infinite places fills me with dread.”

— Blaise Pascal

“I AM THE SILENCE AT THE END OF THE SONG!" "Could you give me the 'dumb forest creature' version, maybe?”

— Nicole Chartrand

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

— Anton Yelchin

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

— William Wordsworth

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

— A. E. Housman

S0metimes,. silence gives a better explanati0n 0f what y0u feeL,,

— Megz

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

— Sara Maitland

Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

— Gautama Buddha

“What you do is so loud, I can't hear what you say." Anonymous”

— Mike Addington

In stillness there is beauty, wisdom, and the answer. That's what happens when you let go and let GOD.

— Anonymous

“Learn to silence the negative voices including your own, if need be.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

— Austin O'Malley

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

— Nelly Mazloum

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much

— William Shakespeare