Silence Quotes

It would never have crossed her mind spontaneously that somebody might actually need silence. That silence helps you to go inward, that anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence: this, I think, is not something Colombe is capable of understanding, because her inner space is as chaotic and noisy as the street outside.

~ Muriel Barbery

You have family, only a brother you clearly don't like to speak about. Fine. That's all right. She ran her fingers through her hair. But don't ever say dreams are a waste. It's a miracle I can still speak of dreams and futures after all I've been through. There's love in this world, Thristan, love that can encompass the heart abiding in humans' mortal, fragile bodies. And there are stupid little humans like me, dreamers, who believe one day they'll find it.

~ Madison Thorne Grey

Such anger. Do you want to talk about it? Vincent called out. When there was no reply, Vincent picked up the whistling where he'd left off, smiling at the success of wreaking havoc on Darius. Vincent didn't hate Darius, or any other Gwarda for that matter, he simply got pleasure from messing with the race.

~ Madison Thorne Grey

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

~ Mitch Albom

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.

~ Jeff Vandermeer

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

~ Henry David Thoreau

The real in us is silent, the acquired is talkative.

~ Kahlil Gibran

It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.

~ Daniel J. Rice

First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of the truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

~ John Stuart Mill

When the mind is silent, you can listen to your heart and remember that everything is Love and that you are that Love.

~ Human Angels

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

~ Chaim Potok

The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud.

~ David Levithan

You are never alone,your Angels always whisper to your heart.By silencing your mind,you can be filled with their Love.

~ Human Angels

Pagans can be just as monstrous as any other group. They can be murderers, rapists, pedophiles. We need to accept that they are our problem and deal with them. We need to speak against their crimes and challenge them rather than letting our silence make us complicit.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

I totally allow myselfto feel every emotion,whatever it isand I observe itfrom my inner spaceof love and silence.

~ Human Angels

The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.

~ Johnny Rich

Thinking belongs to duality. Love belongs to the Oneness. There is no thought without judgment, there is no Unconditional Love without the silence of the mind.

~ Human Angels

For ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped there was so little public discussion of the bomb or of radioactivity that even the Chugoku Shinbun, the major newspaper of the city where the atomic bomb was dropped, did not have the movable type for 'atomic bomb' or 'radioactivity'. The silence continued so long because the U.S. Army Surgeons Investigation Team in the fall of 1945 had issued a mistaken statement: all people expected to die from the radiation effects of the atomic bomb had by then already died; accordingly, no further cases of physiological effects due to residual radiation would be acknowledged.

~ Kenzaburō Ōe

Clear your mind and you will be filled by the Love of the Oneness.

~ Human Angels

-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat the bone of displacement was forever stuck, it was wrong to talk about nothing when there was a perpetual shortage of words for all the horrible things that happened in the world. It was better to be silent than to say what didn't matter.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.

~ John Graves

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice.

~ Susan Marsh

Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.

~ Matthew Quick

Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.

~ Emmi Itäranta

Will people not be thrown face down into Hell only on account of the harvest of their tongue?

~ Anonymous

We didn't talk much, and the silence hung like a silk curtain, light and lovely.

~ Katherine Reay

I see myself abandoned, solitary, thrown into a cell without dimensions, where light and shadows are silent phantoms. Within my inner self I find the silence I am seeking. But it leaves me so bereft of any memory of any human being and of me myself, that I transform this impression into the certainty of physical solitude. Were I to cry out — I can no longer see things clearly — my voice would receive the same indifferent echo from the walls of the earth.

~ Clarice Lispector

Always, just beyond all these things, was the silver sea, the lace border around all land like the silence around sounds or the unknowns beyond all knowledge.

~ Rebecca Solnit

If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.

~ Alison Weir

She drifted down into the water, letting it engulf her body until even her face was underwater. The silence was delicious, just the sound of her own heartbeat in her ears.

~ Crissi Langwell

Christmas, silence breathed childlike anticipation in your heart.

~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Sarah...loved the way the light lit the silence first thing in the morning.

~ Niamh Boyce

Of silence, I can say only what I heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave–and so speech isn’t itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.

~ Jesse Ball

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told That's offensive as though those two words constitute an argument.

~ Christopher Hitchens

There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.

~ Mooji

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

~ Susanna Kaysen

When the owl sings, the night is silent. (Quand le hibou chante, La nuit est silence)

~ Charles De Leusse

People reveal as much by their silence as they do by what they say.

~ Sandra Brown

When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant...

~ Tennessee Williams