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Silence Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker…
- There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into…
- Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities,…
- A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which,…
- And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears…
- Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of…
- Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the…
- Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?
- I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
- I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
- Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician,…
- Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own…
- My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings…
- Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?
- Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your…
- Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows -…
- For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the…
- Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
- For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease…
- Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
- Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin…
More Silence Quotes
- I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. — Karen Armstrong
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. — Francis Bacon
- Silence is the virtue of fools. — Francis Bacon
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac
- First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil
- Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. — Samuel Beckett
- Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. — Samuel Beckett
- My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around… — Adele
- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley