Silence Quotes · Page 95

“Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.”

— R.S. Thomas

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

— Arthur Rimbaud

The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.

— Walter de La Mare

My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?

— Rumi

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

— Anonymous

“What I want??? I just want silence I can afford it, it doesn't need to pay for it or does it?”

— Deyth Banger

“The most difficult thing to be in a world so loud is a person so quiet.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

— Jane Fonda

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so…

— Francois Fenelon

Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don’t trust what you have been taught, what…

— Gangaji

“It’s lovely, like the moment of stunned disbelief immediately after you finally snap and tell the world’s most annoying office-mate to shut…

— Charles Stross

“I saw their mouths going up and down without a sound, as if they were sitting on the deck of a departing…

— Sylvia Plath

Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of…

— Edward Young

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

— Pierre Bourdieu

In silence all our usual patterns assault us ... That is why most people give up rather quickly. When Jesus was led…

— Richard Rohr

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

— Anonymous

I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly…

— Peggy Lee

I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times…

— Masiela Lusha

It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“It doesn't matter. The same thing has nearly happened a few times already. It's just a physical phenomenon, no more. The spring…

— Haruki Murakami

to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the…

— Anonymous

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

— Margaret Atwood

“Sabbath is the time set aside to do nothing so that we can receive everything, to set aside our anxious attempts to…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“...And he shouldn't have talked to Mama in the hurtful ways he did neither. Calling her despicable names because she wanted to…

— Lesley Kagen

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

— Anonymous

“Silence, along with the attention it fosters, is our anchor to the present, to the here and now.”

— Anne D. LeClaire

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.

— Will Christopher Baer

“Silence is more profitable unto thee than abundance of speech.”

— Ptahhotep

“Silence is more than observation; it informs from non-observation.”

— Bryant McGill

Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

— Susan B. Anthony

A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory.

— Claudia Gray

Transmitted to the celebration of life and excited to silence is observed.

— Mak_786

Silence can be the world's strongest weapon in torturing people's emotions.

— Nishan Panwar

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Perfect silence is a safe resort, when such control cannot be attained.”

— Sarah Miller

One of the hardest things to do in life is to listen without intent to reply.

— Anonymous

“be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence.”

— Robert Bresson

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

— Michael Leunig