Top 1200 Sounds Of Silence Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

But silence is where victims dwell.

The beginning of prayer is silence.

Meditation is the action of silence.

The fruit of Silence is Prayer.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

Listen to the sound of silence.

All is known in the sacredness of silence.

Silence can never be misquoted.

Their silence is praise enough.

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

Sun, silence, and happiness.

The purpose of sound is silence.

Art destroys silence.

It's not as bad as it sounds.

Silence gives answers.

The silence was an intense roar.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

Silence is the garden of thought.

When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.

You know what, I'll suffer in silence.

To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

Inside the silence is a melody.

I learnt silence from the talkative

Love is a sacred silence.

and silence is the golden mountain

I like working in silence.

Silence is a source of great strenght.

Silence is the cornerstone of character.

Silence is also conversation.

Silence is the wit of fools.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music.

To be honest, I hate silence.

Their silence is enough praise.

Silence, beautiful voice.

Silence gives consent.

I'm into sounds, man.

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of the streets and the sounds of nature, and make us see once again that they are parts of the same song. She celebrates American lives as they are lived today: the mother scrubbing her kitchen floor at midnight, the drag-queens in the Tenderloin, the homeless woman knitting in the courtyard. This is poetry that relentlessly shows us the beauty in the world, with all its struggles and complexity, and demands that we go out to meet it with open hearts.

Silence, too, can be torture.

What we can't speak, we say in silence.

Hushed as midnight silence.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

Silence is the residue of fear.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Experience yourself in silence.

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.

Silence, nothing is better.

A fence to wisdom is silence.

Silence is so freaking loud

Silence is an ornament for women.

There is no diplomacy like silence.

The silence is perfect, and yet a torment.

Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.

Poems are difficult to silence.

There's a degree of deception in silence.