Silent Quotes

It was normal for it to rain, but in October- who could forget the rains of October?- now this disturbingly silent rain was falling. That was so nebulous that it was pretty; that, if it had not been wet, no one would have believed it was raining; that was so slow that it was possible to follow its fall with one's eyes. That which villagers called 'the rains of October' was the accumulation of the serenity of such a life. Eyes almost broke into tears on looking at the sun subdividing itself, at the end of the afternoon, in each drop of that snail's-pace precipitation, as if the great star had dissolved each day an infinitesimal bit more.

~ Ondjaki

Being skilled in Catsism is like being a ninja only deadlier and not so silent. The only bad thing is the sickening grammar you have to use.

~ Will Advise

But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.

~ E.m. Forster

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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

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

~ Human Angels

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

~ Charles De Leusse

To write,” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves.

~ Zofia Kossak-Szczucka

...when your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...

~ John Geddes

If Jarod Kintz was a cat, he'd stalk people silently and deadly. Right now, all he does is bark at them for no good reason, like all the good people do.

~ Will Advise

It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiescence.

~ Criss Jami

You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you. There are people who are unhappy about your success and your big dreams are just too heavy for them to bear, so they will try to break you into pieces. Extinguishers of dreams are everywhere, and you can decode them by their nosy attitude towards your affairs. That is why its pertinent to keep few friends, talk less about yourself, and focus on other things pretending as if you don't exist. It doesn't make you faded or out of life, but the chances of getting your prospects destroyed will be very slim.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

i will forever be collidingwith a billion unnamedundiscovered stars, each of uson our own orbital paths.

~ Sanober Khan

Clever wives are mostly silent ,alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates and destroy HOMES.

~ Kishore Bansal

When problems come, remain calm in two cases. One when you know you can solve them so smile; second when you know you can’t so be silent.

~ Vikrmn

Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.

~ Anthony Liccione

Tongue and hand tied, I was equally cut off and trapped in my own silent dark tomb.

~ Jazz Feylynn

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock, but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

~ G.k. Chesterton

He’s like an old clock the won’t tell time but won’t stop neither with the hands bend out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm rusted silent, an old worthless clock that keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.

~ Ken Kesey

She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They’re the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.

~ Beth Revis

Swallowing, he entered the second code. Then there was a sound like a marble dropping on the floor - bouncing slowly, gradually getting faster as it dropped lower and lower… The thing was toying with him! Where was it? He strained his hearing, but all was again silent. He wanted to shout and scream obscenities at it, but he fought the impulse. It might not really know his location after all - and that would've led it right to him. It must be coming for him! It must be by the door by now, looking for a way in. Time was running out. He hastily keyed in the third and last code.Death the destroyer never is late!

~ Christina Engela

If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into it.

~ Anthony Liccione

Hope will never be silent.

~ Harvey Milk

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

~ Kevin Brownlow

In time of war the laws are silent.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

During war, the laws are silent.

~ Quintus Tullius Cicero

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

~ Pamela Hansford Johnson

Laws are silent in time of war.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

This love is silent.

~ T. S. Eliot

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

~ Leon Foucault

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

~ Orlando Gibbons

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

~ Peter T. King

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

~ Dennis Chavez

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

~ Azar Nafisi

Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

~ Theodore C. Sorensen

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti