Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies — Lisa Vanderpump
I contribute to the dead of winter and the moans of silence, blood trails are music to my ears ... I'm a gut pile addict… — Ted Nugent
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity. — PZ Myers
Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say… — Herta Muller
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over… — Tillie Olsen
I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...] — Stephanie Perkins
The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe? — Paul Davies
By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Only silence perfects silence. — A. R. Ammons
There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding. — Michele Norris
But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock… — Jeannette Walls
Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence. — Irvine Welsh
You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact… — Douglas Coupland
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of… — Seneca the Younger
Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say. — Lord Chesterfield
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. — Anna Quindlen
There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth. — Emily Carr
Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being.… — Rowan Williams
The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me. — C. K. Williams
Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts? — E L Konigsburg
One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded… — Mark Doty
It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful. — Colum McCann
No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration. — Ted Dekker

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