Silence Quotes

Mass media has convinced us to think that silence is only supposed to happen as a manifestation of supreme actualization, where both parties are so at peace with their emotional connection that it cannot be expressed through the rudimentary tools of the lexicon; otherwise, silence is proof that the magic is gone and the relationship is over (hence the phrase “We just don’t talk anymore”).

~ Chuck Klosterman

If I am ever unexpectedly stopped in my car by the police, my response after pulling over in a populated area is to politely and clearly inform them that I am unarmed, I am recording everything, if they want to take me to the police station that they will need to appoint a lawyer, and I am now using my USA federal right to silence.

~ Steven Magee

A pregnant pause with enough gestation can give birth to a well formed idea.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

If people were silent, they could hear the noise of their own lives better. If people were silent, it would make what they did say, whenever they chose to say it, more important. If people were silent, they could read one another's signals, the way underwater creatures flash lights at one another, or turn their skin different colors.

~ Ali Benjamin

I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection.I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me.I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain.I chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips.I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Enjoy TheSound Of Silence.

~ Timothy Salter

Silence introduced in a society that worships noise is like the Moon exposing the night. Behind darkness is our fear. Within silence our voice dwells. What is required from both is that we be still. We focus. We listen. We see and we hear. The unexpected emerges.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything . . . It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. Silence nurtures our nature, our human nature, and lets us know who we are. Left with a more receptive mind and a more attuned ear, we become better listeners not only to nature but to each other. Silence can be carried like embers from a fire. Silence can be found, and silence can find you. Silence can be lost and also recovered. But silence cannot be imagined, although most people think so. To experience the soul-swelling wonder of silence, you must hear it.

~ Gordon Hempton

Find a secret place and be unreachable! And then, in the silence of solitude, the things you cannot reach in the crowds will meet you there!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Silence is its own kind of tension.

~ Erika Swyler

The desert became grim, dark and foreboding. A silence of death lay over the land, and it seemed as though the very stars held their breath and twinkled no more.

~ Alan Kinross

... the silenceHolds with its gloved handThe wild hawk of the mind.

~ R.s. Thomas

In abundance of words, offense will not be lacking but one who restrains his lips is wise.

~ Anonymous

A mist crept into the valley—how could this be, by the light of the climbing sun? It drifted over the form in the grass, nearly obscuring it, seeming to draw all sound into itself. I thought I might burst from the strain of that silence... until a single sound shattered it:The gasp of an indrawn breath.

~ Tosca Lee

Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.

~ Mark Buchanan

When silence is a living thing, it can be a friend, sometimes even a comfort.

~ Dot Hutchison

Everything was for this moment- of silence, of bliss! I am speechless at this shrine of You and I understand that life was just a journey to find You, the deepest consciousness living in even the dead!

~ Preeth Nambiar

Otherwise the silence in the room was profound, the silence of places Brian had not yet been: gazing at the lifeless body of a beloved, the echo of a lost illusion, the tinnitus of betrayal.

~ Rafael Yglesias

You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Silence is what causes most of humanities problems.

~ Lauren Kate

Silent is an anagram of listen.

~ Johnny Rich

he looks the waysilence looks before it’s broken

~ Andrew Mcmillan

Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phones, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are. We fear silence like it's an invisible monster, gnawing at us, ripping us open, and showing us our dissatisfaction. Silence is terrifying.

~ Jefferson Bethke

There's just as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.

~ James Purdy

It's all about inner silence! Everything else would just take you there!

~ Preeth Nambiar

Seek O mortal, the meaning of life in your innermost silence!

~ Preeth Nambiar

Yet, the most wonderful in my heart remains unsaid and it will remain so forever!

~ Preeth Nambiar

Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day. It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last. When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly.

~ Sunday Adelaja

In the silence, while awaiting the distant footsteps of death he heard someone weeping! O God, was that you?

~ Preeth Nambiar

I will look at you in the darkness of the night, where there are no colours to fill my eyes and where there are no frames that would define your shape. In the silence, I will seek the warmth of the night in your memories and sleep holding tight those orphan dreams. O dear, amidst the cloudy skies, where did you disappear?

~ Preeth Nambiar

We become equally responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong but remain silent because we think it is right.

~ Suzy Kassem

Life is a dash. Pause in the present. Enjoy this moment.

~ J.r. Rim

There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

~ Margaret Atwood

Om is the signature sound of this Universe. It is the soundless sound of existence.

~ Banani Ray

Within the caves of deepest longing Echoes the sounds of majestic eve! Upon the sphere of bright white skies Spreads the paint of evening colours!Silence divine, Penetrates deep Onto the void of ethereal joy!All I have is a bundle of letters That would sound nothing definite!Hold my arms to touch my warmth,O dear, whisper on my ears soft,Is silence the fall of words or Are words the wreck of silence?

~ Preeth Nambiar

If you really wish to contribute anything worthy to the world, offer your silence with smile.

~ Aditya Ajmera

Thy silence, then that voices thee.

~ Herman Melville

Solitude helps the soul remember that life andwork have two completely different meanings. It remindsus that we were created for greatness in relationship withothers, not task lists and spreadsheets.

~ Angela L Craig