Silence Quotes

But silence continued in the layers of the earth, and this density that I could feel at my shoulders continued harmonious, sustained, unaltered through eternity. I lay there pondering my situation, lost in the desert, and in danger, naked between sky and sand and stars, withdrawn by too much silence from the poles of my life.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

When you are able to understand the language of silence, you will be able to see the beauty of the invisible.

~ Debasish Mridha

The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence.

~ Anthony Liccione

It is the disaster of our entire existence that we live thus away from our soul, and stand in such dread of its slightest movement. Did we but allow it to smile frankly in its silence and its radiance, we should be already living an eternal life. We have only to think for an instant how much it succeeds in accomplishing during those rare moments when we knock off its chains – for it is our custom to enchain it as though it were distraught – what it does in love, for instance, for there we do permit it at times to approach the lattices of external life.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

In my silence and stillness, my soul dances with the ecstasy of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

If I tell some one that I love him – as I may have told a hundred others – my words will convey nothing to him; but the silence which will ensue, if I do indeed love him, will make clear in what depths lie the roots of my love, and will in its turn give birth to a conviction, that shall itself be silent; and in the course of a lifetime, this silence and this conviction will never again be the same. …

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

It is a thing that knows no limit, and before it all men are equal; and the silence of king or slave, in presence of death, or grief, or love, reveals the same features, hides beneath its impenetrable mantle the self-same treasure. For this is the essential silence of our soul, our most inviolable sanctuary, and its secret can never be lost

~ ;Maurice Maeterlinck

As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

I will continue to exist in all these little moments. where we took the first dip of love and my heart skipped a beat. Our first walk, the first touch which burnt my soul, that first rain, the first kiss, the first comfortable silence between us. How many years may pass, Whenever I am sitting near the window and its raining or whenever I am sitting by a fireside and its cold, There will always be a piece of me which reminds me of you. It will stay in this moment forever.

~ Akshay Vasu

And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we stand in so deep a dread of silence. We can bear, when need must be, the silence of ourselves, that of isolation: but the silence of many - silence multiplied - and above all the silence of a crowd - these are supernatural burdens, whose inexplicable weight brings dread to the mightiest soul.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

The silence of a wounded soul roars louder than any tempest...

~ Virginia Alison

A silent velvet footstep filled me, unwelcome yet so needed. You finally found my hidden shore with grains of time and ocean of the most secret secrets, violet and red; left a trail of deep blue footsteps on my glowing beach of soul, and no matter how many times tides wash the golden sand anew, your prints can never be erased. Each one a shining star in my quiet Universe...

~ Oksana Rus

Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.

~ Manprit Kaur

Life is a song made of the musical rhythm of the body, words of the mind and the melodious silence of the soul.

~ Banani Ray

When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Silence is very dangerous, especially when your words can be the only source of healing at a moment.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

~ Ansel Adams

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

~ Artur Schnabel

I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said—the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.

~ Meia Geddes

She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.

~ Akshay Vasu

No art is silent! Because art is an original idea and every original idea speaks, every interesting thought screams, every art talks, every art screams! No art is silent! If it is silent, then it is not an art!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

~ Edith Sitwell

I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity.

~ Karen Armstrong

Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper. When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated--the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.

~ Michael Finkel

If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.

~ Joyce Rachelle

The girl whose table I occupied was reading a book but I couldn’t help but notice that all this time, she was secretly watching me.“You are beautiful.”I took my eyes off my phone and I saw the girl talking to me. I was embarrassed and didn’t know what to say or how to react.

~ Nico J. Genes

If we don’t live in the same vibe, it is hard to be aware of each other. When our reading differs from our neighbors’ reality, our surroundings may take a range of discordant shades and daily episodes become unrecognizable. But if we endeavor to find out, the “who is who”, the “what is what” and the “where is Waldo”, we might demonstrate our social literacy and connectedness. (Fish for silence.)

~ Erik Pevernagie

For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something — distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world — but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant judge you for it. If you live it long enough it becomes an addiction, like all things, too much of it and you will go insane but not enough of it will also send you there.n

~ Nikki Rowe

When you maintain silence, you would have said to have understood the world.

~ Dada Bhagwan

However much silence you behold, that amount of intellect will stop.

~ Dada Bhagwan

With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

To be wise means to know when to stay silent.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day. (God)

~ Shannon L. Alder

Intellectuality silences OTHERS! Intelligence keeps YOU silent!

~ Vishwanath S J

The pain of what happened next lives in our collective memory. It mauls our souls each day. Yet it must be told. Silence guarantees no healing. It promises that the child's life would be forgotten and that its mission might, one day, be thought significant. Silence is the enemy of history, and history is all we have.

~ Daniel Black