Silence Quotes · Page 141

“In the silence, there was peace. A peace that came too soon, but I sought refuge in its release.”

— Rebecca Donovan

“Clarity emerges from silence, not meetings. You need the silence so you have something worth saying in the meetings.”

— Matthew Kelly

Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

— Douglas Hurd

“A terrible silence fell in the room. Bill Ireton looked suddenly sober as a trout.”

— Patricia Highsmith

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

— Karen Armstrong

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

— Disha Patani

“Sunlight of love on your lips; & the Nightingale has fallen into silence.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

— Virginia Woolf

“From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.”

— Shogo Oketani

When we get angry we show it by shouting but when we get hurt by the person we love the most we…

— Sumit Rohilla

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of…

— Henry Steele Commager

Sometimes we maintain a silence to protect relationship but to much silence create a distance in every beautiful relationship

— Sanya Khan

Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. .…

— Alfred de Vigny

“Find a love that listens even when you’re not saying anything, that knows the infinite ways you express yourself in silence, and…

— Liz Newman

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much…

— Tom Perrotta

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence…

— John Steinbeck

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn…

— Anne Lamott

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for…

— John Updike

I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I…

— Jacqueline Woodson

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after…

— Mary Stewart

Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend…

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is…

— Steven Wright

Silence is so often applauded and those who speak out are often called tasteless.

— Margaret Cho

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“... isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much?”

— Kirstin van Dyke

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

— Mary Webb

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

— Karel Capek

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

— Rumi

“It's the quiet ones you have to watch--that's because you can't hear us coming.”

— Marsha Hinds

“Silence is golden, and gold is up these days, so silence is a solid investment.”

— Jarod Kintz

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

— Robin Gibb

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

— Michael Pollan

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

— Homer

That awkward moment when silence fills the room, and the only thing you can hear is the sound of a clock ticking

— Anne Dawn

Silently but surely I will make sure I have the last laugh when it's all said and done.

— Anonymous

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

— James Stephens