Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today. — August Spies
When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. — Britney Spears
At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of… — Mother Teresa
Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed. — Margaret Cho
Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left… — Helen Steiner Rice
Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the… — Rabindranath Tagore
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum,… — Annie Dillard
The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I… — Pablo Neruda
I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their… — Samuel Johnson
In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her… — Arthur Miller
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed… — Seneca the Younger
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. — Henry David Thoreau
Your highest female grace is silence. — Ben Jonson
There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived… — Edgar Lee Masters
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so… — Charles Caleb Colton
Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence? — Sathya Sai Baba
My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens… — Antonio Machado
We need silence to be able to touch souls. — Mother Teresa
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of… — Eckhart Tolle
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of… — Carl Linnaeus

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