Language Quote by Hermann Hesse

“He forced his mind clear of other thoughts and waited. Stillness, he had learned, did not come naturally. He practiced it. Sometimes, as he…

— Elizabeth Musser

“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them.”

— Faraaz Kazi

“As Richard Foster explains, “Though silence sometimes involves the absence of speech, it always involves the act of listening. Simply to refrain from talking,…

— Richard J. Foster

“Silence often speaks louder than words. To be heard is nice to be understood is divine.”

— Truth Devour

“And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and be deaf…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Silence fueled anxieties, gave them their true power. Expressing them aloud was a way of releasing that tension, of letting go, if only for…

— James Rollins

“To be silent doesn't mean I have nothing to say, instead I have decided to let others be heard.”

— Rahja Harrison

“Silence after all, comes in two very different forms. Sometimes, indeed, nobody is speaking; but on other occasions, people are unable or unwilling to…

— John Jenkins in The Lost History of Christianity

“He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.”

— Elton Trueblood

“It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but the anxiety to be heard. The words of the proud man impose silence on all…

— Thomas Merton