Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all. — George Eliot
Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my… — Carol Muske-Dukes
The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and… — Erich Maria Remarque
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. — Samuel Johnson
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence. — Joyce Carol Oates
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of… — Samuel Johnson
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. — Robert Adams
I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear people to speech."… — Parker J. Palmer
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your… — Ansel Adams
Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all… — Sigurd F. Olson
Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace. — Terry Tempest Williams
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need… — Stephen Chbosky
Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction. — Cynthia McKinney
Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness — Unknown Author
One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and… — Thomas Merton
There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of… — Andrew Harvey
All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to… — Honore de Balzac
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… — Khalil Gibran
We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us. — David Jeremiah
It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments.… — Mike Thompson
The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce
Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is… — Glenn Beck
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is the invisible laying… — Herman Melville

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