Silence Quotes · Page 124

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

— Jay Griffiths

We dont say the things we want to say to the people we love...we take that moment for granted and regret later.

— Anonymous

“They sat a long time in silence, each chained to a separate wound.”

— Casper Silk

“silence may avoid many problem but laughing may solve them”

— rey arthur

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

— Dwight Yoakam

“Don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign they have nothing valuable to say about your health.”

— Michael Pollan

“Let us use words carefully, because words can betray and kill.( "A gap of silence")”

— Erik Pevernagie

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

— Anonymous

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“… for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,…

— Margaret Atwood

“But talking to fill the silence was how most people dealt with the kind of pressure that pervaded the room, a strain…

— Kit Rocha

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

— Dan Simmons

“So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation.…

— Ryan Holiday

“Pressed from all corners, you often things, If I could just have eight hours of quiet. You will have that someday, but…

— Nora Roberts

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever…

— Rumi

We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. "How are we going to kill…

— Suzanne Collins

When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage…

— Mary Oliver

“I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to…

— Gillian Flynn

“I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block,…

— Tony Kushner

“First things first, my silence last night had nothing to do with you, but also had everything to do with you. You…

— Belle Aurora

“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit…

— Don Paterson

“For an instant it was very peaceful … and then it was like being shot off the road by a bazooka, but with no…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be…

— Richard Rohr

Fosse would say that it's important to trust silence. He very much liked the use of the tacit, or silent, count, where…

— Ann Reinking

A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

— Anuj

“The ticking of the clock Marring the deafening silence, Time's footsteps toward an end Or a beginning. - M. White”

— Staci Hart

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Silence is not always saying yes to anything, it is just a perfect way of thinking what to do next.

— Anonymous

“Ahead of the tin was all craning white heads and expectant muttering, behind it was silence and crumbs. Lynne”

— Belinda Bauer

No one should ever suffer in silence. Bullies thrive in silence.

— Ricky Whittle

“[P]ower is at its most potent when it can operate silently.”

— J.A. Sharpe

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

— Taylor Swift

“It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air.”

— E.M. Forster

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

— Henry David Thoreau

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

— William Wordsworth

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

— Michael Jackson

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

— Bill Vaughan

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

— Arthur Rimbaud

“The music comes out of the silence. I don't mind if it goes back in. We come out of the silence...”

— Geoff Ryman