Top 1200 Silence Is Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go on, perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on

Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.

Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.

I like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.

I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

Do you want to know yourself better? Then discover silence.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

Sometimes silence was easiest, when the only word left was good-bye.

On my own, I couldn't silence my fear, but with God's presence I could push past it.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

When you work for DC, it's sort of like working for the CIA. You have a vow of silence.

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

I sometimes like to sit in the silence and darkness and listen to my heart shine.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.

Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts.

In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns.

But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.