Silence Quotes
-
Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
Gaston Bachelard
-
Like knowing hostages, the AFL-CIO and its unions march in tandem to endorse the Democratic presidential nominees early in the primary season. They have given up their capacity for negotiation, so frightened are they of the Republicans. Meanwhile, the rank-and-file workers suffer their dwindling status in silence.
Ralph Nader
-
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!
Johannes Tauler
-
Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.
Vernon Howard
-
In the silence of love you will find the spark of life.
Rumi
-
I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
Octavio Paz
-
What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.
Wendell Berry
-
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
Baltasar Gracian
-
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Thomas Carlyle
-
I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.
Daniel Tammet
-
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil Gibran
-
To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
Ramana Maharshi
-
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Karen Armstrong
-
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C. S. Lewis
-
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
Bernadette Devlin
