Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation. — Thomas Keating
The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable. — Sivananda
When something important is going on, silence is a lie. — A. M. Rosenthal
Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking. — Caroline Myss
If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond… — Thomas Merton
Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects… — David Whyte
Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of… — Gaston Bachelard
The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence. — Mother Teresa
Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has… — Eckhart Tolle
The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves. — Joseph Curiale
Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light. — Sri Chinmoy
Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When… — Sri Chinmoy
Worship the Silent Space in you. — Rajneesh
I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine. — Frank D. Gilroy
Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a… — Pablo Neruda
It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny. — Archibald Rutledge
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. — Unknown Author
Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness. — Kalki Bhagavan
The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain. — Carlos Castaneda
Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven." — William Wordsworth
Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent. — William Gilmore Simms
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon… — William Butler Yeats
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know. — William Rose Benet
Summer makes a silence after spring. — Vita Sackville-West
A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence. — Robert Orben

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