Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre. — Rasheed Ogunlaru
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence. — Simon Van Booy
There are silences harder to take back than words. — James Richardson
The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely… — Betsy Lerner
However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new… — Michael Foley
A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening, — Bernie Krause
Don't you know yet that men are full of words that mean nothing? The silence of a woman is a thousand times weightier. You must… — Sharon Maas
That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame. — M. L. Stedman
Once you have tasted the nectar of Silence, then whether your eyes are open or closed does not matter. Once you have tasted the nectar… — Vimala Thakar
To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on which one has… — Vimala Thakar
My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various… — Anna Kamienska
There is a place where words are born of silence. — Rumi
We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred… — Gabrielle Giffords
Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts,… — Wendell Berry
God speaks in the silence of the heart. — Mother Teresa
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation . — Audre Lorde
The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable. — Henry David Thoreau
I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races… — Arthur Rimbaud
We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv e mind. In… — Deepak Chopra
Study is the child of silence and mystery. — Henri Murger
I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your… — Audre Lorde
The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the… — Pope Francis
Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love. — Pope Francis
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. — Soren Kierkegaard
Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the voice of God.… — Pope Benedict XVI

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