Silence Quotes

And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest musicleaving tears on the glass,which is what music does to memost of the timebut silence too. and rain.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Listen to your heart in silence and peace, as through fear you only channel fear.

~ Raphael Zernoff

When the heart sees injustice it turns to the perspective of oneness.It feels no need to produce a big speech to overcome its enemies.In silence it finds its peace.

~ Raphael Zernoff

How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God’s will and another is just cultural differences? What if it’s all cultural? What if homosexuality or saving yourself for marriage is as outdated as women staying silent in church or Leviticus forbidding tattoos?

~ Trevor D. Richardson

I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me.

~ Marty Rubin

...And suddenly, from behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt arrival of the office boy. I feel like I could kill him for barging in on what I wasn't thinking. I turn around and look at him with a silence full of hatred, tense with latent homicide, my mind already hearing the voice he'll use to tell me something or other. He smiles from the other side of the room and says 'Good afternoon' in a loud voice. I hate him like the universe. My eyes are sore from imagining.

~ Fernando Pessoa

The Dalai Lama says that the world will be saved by Western women. Not any women, perhaps not all women, but Burning Women. Women who have stepped out of silence and into the fullness of their power. Angry women who love the world and her creatures too much to let it be destroyed so thoughtlessly for a moment longer.Burning Woman is the heart and soul of revolution – inner and outer. She burns for change, she dances in the fire of the old, all the while visioning and weaving the new.

~ Lucy H. Pearce

I just wanted silence, not rage, not anger, not going trouble... One simple thing silence!

~ Deyth Banger

But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.

~ S.d. Lawendowski

Speech one may regret,Silence no sorrow begets,Humility be born before honour,Soft answer turns wrath’s corner

~ Munindra Misra

...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he told himself: 'I never hit her'. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun.

~ Gillian Flynn

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

~ Sue Miller

You know,” he said. “I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.” There was silence, in the high place.

~ Neil Gaiman

In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Author refers to, short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.

~ Thomas Hughes

Sometimes hate is silence, some stuff are made in such way that they are in front of your eyes.

~ Deyth Banger

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

~ Gary Steiner

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.

~ Gary Steiner

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.

~ Dean Koontz

Discussing it later, many of us felt we suffered a mental dislocation at that moment, which only grew worse through the course of the remaining deaths. The prevailing symptom of this state was an inability to recall any sound. Truck doors slammed silently; Lux's mouth screamed silently; and the street, the creaking tree limbs, the streetlight clicking different colors, the electric buzz of the pedestrian crossing box - all these usually clamorous voices hushes, or had begun shrieking at a pitch too high for us to hear, though they sent chills up our spines. Sound returned only once Lux had gone. Televisions erupted with canned laughter. Fathers splashed, soaking aching backs.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

The silence was suddenly too charged, his face too beautiful in the light.

~ Sarah J. Maas

The only response to stupidity and ignorance was silence

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.

~ Auliq Ice

You see how I live: shadows and silence, leaving things as I find them because I have no reason to disturb them. But there are things that I have known, even though I never wished to know them and cannot give them a name.

~ Thomas Ligotti

Don't ever mistake silence for ignorance, when it is obviously stupidity

~ Josh Stern

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The reality is, no matter what you were told, whatever happened to you as a child was not legally or morally your fault. Abused children are instilled with guilt regarding their participation. It's an especially complex issue if the abuser is a family member. The child is told and believes that by his word his family will disintegrate, or harm may descend upon other loved ones. He fears he will lose more by telling than not.

~ Sarah E. Olson

Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in human society you might say. In reality, we tell lots of lies, and we often break into silence. However, if we were constant;y talking year-round, and telling only the truth truth would probably lose some of its value.

~ Haruki Murakami

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

~ Michelle Sagara West

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

~ Nicholas Sparks

I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

~ Nadezhda Mandelstam

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.

~ Chaim Potok

Silence is so freaking loud

~ Sarah Dessen

I don't think... then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

~ Lewis Carroll

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

~ Henry Miller

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

~ Lawrence Durrell

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

~ Elbert Hubbard

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

~ Arthur Conan Doyle