Silence Quotes

The silence was enchanting. Infinite space seemed to enter it, and my spirit, alone with the stars, seemed capable of any adventure.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.

~ Harley King

But sometimes, things are better to just hear. Some questions better left unasked. Some words better left unsaid. Because saying them doesn’t make you matter any less.

~ A. Lynn

The true hero trains himself in silence.

~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The constant talker will never, or a least rarely, grasp truth. Of course even he must experience some truths, otherwise he could not exist. He does notice certain facts, observe certain relations, draw conclusions and make plans. But he does not yet possess genuine truth, which comes into being only when the essence of an object, the significance of a relaton, and what is valid and eternal in this world reveal themselves. This requires the spacousness, freedom, and pure receptiveness of that inner “clean-swept room” whilch silence alone can create

~ Romano Guardini

We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.

~ Ruth Haley Barton

If there is silence between us, please be the one who breaks it.

~ Daniel Englisch

I went to a concert upstairs in Town Hall. The composer whose works were being performed had provided program notes. One of these notes was to the effect that there is too much pain in the world. After the concert I was walking along with the composer and he was telling me how the performances had not been quite up to snuff. So I said, Well, I enjoyed the music, but I didn't agree with that program note about there being too much pain in the world. He said, What? Don't you think there's enough? I said, I think there's just the right amount.

~ John Cage

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

~ Leslie Jamison

The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.

~ Russell Hoban

She says his eyes address her like the silence of the snow.

~ Ronald H Peat

When you believe your lie, it will curse your life forever.

~ Robert Ahaness

Even the proud in all their boasting, must fall silent before the wise.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

I always thought I was an extrovert until I became a theatre major. Then I realised I just didn't like silence.

~ Cora Carmack

The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.

~ Thomas Pynchon

Shush – it’s silent time again.

~ Carla H. Krueger

She was a woman of extended silences, I noticed, and she said very little as we walked the streets of La Boca, looking at its brightly colored houses. It was as if she understood that quiet observation was the key to knowing a place, perhaps even the key to life.

~ Thomas H. Cook

Connection with yourself only comes in moments of silence.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Peace is the friend we find in silence.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The act of silence is wisdom for ignoring a provoking situation.

~ Lailah Giftyakita

Often the most effective statement we can make in a noisy world is to say nothing at all. Don't waste your words over something or to someone who deserves silence.

~ Chris Vonada

He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.

~ Nick Harkaway

All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows by the peculiarities of his nature, becomes absorbed in doing something that is personal, useful and beautiful. Word of his activities is carried over the walls.

~ Sherwood Anderson

The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.

~ Chaim Potok

If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...

~ Jennifer Crusie

At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they're returning. It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

~ Albert Camus

... listening to the silence together. If there’s any. I truly believe not so. I have never heard a silence. Have you? The world is filled with unspoken words. And that’s something different isn’t it.

~ Anna Jae

In silence there is a perfection which any toil injures.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A closed mouth catches no flies.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Words were his delight; Hers, a gay gracefulnessOf dancing and moving. But when to the place Of deep loving (Starlight at midnight)At last they came, Their full communion And consummation,Their complete sphere,Was stillness for her,Silence for him.

~ Theodore Spencer

But the night doesn't swallow her up.Everywhere she goes she is still there,the silence is as big as herself.

~ Adrienne Su

In my silence do I enhance my talents

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

sometimes being silent is the best way to appreciate the moment

~ Kiran Joshi

Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The limitless, lowering sky, the long stretches of motionless empty prairie, the silence, complete right down to the absence of birdsong -- who knows what decides a man to leave most of his words unspoken?

~ Larry Watson

Silence is more than observation, it informs from non-observation.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The quiet between them had gone on for far too long now to pretend it was anything other than what it was. There were no more words, all that was left were two faintly beating hearts.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in pouring rain and driving under an overpass, and for just that second there is a profound, powerful sense of reprieve- the utter silence of non-rain.

~ Jaclyn Moriarty

There have been extensive human rights violations by American psychiatrists over the last 70 years. These doctors were pad by the American taxpayer through CIA and military contracts. It is past time for these abuses to stop, it is past time for a reckoning, and it is past time for individual doctors to be held accountable. The Manchurian Candidate Programs are of much more than historical interest. ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD, MKULTRA and MKSEARCH are precursors of mind control programs that are operational in the twenty first century. Human rights violations by psychiatrists must be ongoing in programs like COPPER GREEN, the interrogation program at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Such programs must be carried out within CIA units like Task Force 121 (The Dallas Morning News, December 1, 2004, p. 1A). Information pointing to ongoing human rights violations by psychiatrists is available in publications like The New Yorker (see article by Seymour M. Hersh, May 24, 2004). Yes the indifference, silence, denial, and disinformation of organized medicine and psychiatry continue. One purpose of The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations By American Psychiatrists is to break that silence.

~ Colin A. Ross