Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention… — Emile M. Cioran
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. — Emile M. Cioran
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action. — John Henrik Clarke
Silence moves faster when it's going backward. — Jean Cocteau
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures,… — Elizabeth Bowen
Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go… — Samuel Beckett
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I… — Aberjhani
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress… — John Climacus
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to… — Edmond Jabes
The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and… — Charles Eliot Norton
The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him. — John Climacus
You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big… — Oswald Chambers
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition… — Oswald Chambers
In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him...that we spend a… — Charles R. Swindoll
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. — Xenocrates
Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We… — Elisabeth Elliot
Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the… — Edward McKendree Bounds
God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and… — Charles Brent
Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a… — Oswald Chambers
A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God. — Samuel Chadwick

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