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Silent Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams…
- You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you…
- When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is…
- Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the…
- In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond...
- The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
- Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?
- I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks…
- When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed,…
- Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
- Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen…
- My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
- And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came…
- And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.
More Silent Quotes
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. — Bill Ayers
- The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac
- The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. — Honore de Balzac
- Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson
- Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act. — Annie Besant
- Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of… — Jean de la Bruyere
- We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while… — Jean de la Bruyere
- Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan
- A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and… — John Calvin
- It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to… — Madeleine Albright