Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of… — Elie Wiesel
Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all desires. Suddenly you… — Rajneesh
You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to… — Alison McGhee
Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they… — L. Ron Hubbard
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence. — Charlie Chaplin
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid. — Daniel Day-Lewis
Sometimes the silence can be like thunder. — Bob Dylan
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return… — Joan Halifax
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse. — Edward Abbey
Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence… — Edward Abbey
If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies… — Edward Abbey
Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. — Benjamin Franklin
The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple… — Robert Adams
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning. — Sanford Meisner
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak. — Charles de Gaulle
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice,… — Arundhati Roy
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something… — Gilles Deleuze
Silence is an answer to a wise man. — Plutarch
Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had… — Maxim Gorky
To restore silence is the role of objects. — Samuel Beckett
I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost… — Tennessee Williams
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side… — Madeleine L'Engle
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above. — Richard Henry Stoddard
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of… — N. Scott Momaday

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