Silence Quotations

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know.

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences.

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

There are times when I have to take, I call it a 'silence bath,' where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.

I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

I can hear the roar of women's silence

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.

It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.