Silence Quotes

• One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

  

  Paul Washer
  • People
  • God
  • Alone

• We Raymond and Meursault stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Silence
  • Shoot
  • Blinking

• I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Society
  • Silence
  • Strategy

• I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.

  

  Valerie Wilson Wesley
  • Silence
  • Privacy

• Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Past
  • Wind
  • River

• Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

  

  John Dryden
  • Silence

• The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Silence

• Silence is the unbearable repartee.

  

  Alexander Theroux
  • Silence

• Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.

  

  Donald Michael Thomas
  • She
  • Heard
  • Hearing

• 'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • God
  • Silence

• All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Song
  • Alone
  • Singing

• Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Hurt
  • Secret

• All I know is the dark, the night underground. And that’s all there really is. That’s all there is to know, in the end. The silence, and the dark. You know everything, wizard. But I know one thing - the one true thing!

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • True
  • Night
  • Dark

• When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better feeling.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Past
  • Silence

• I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.

  

  A. L. Rowse
  • Life
  • Time
  • Growing

• somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Experience
  • Eyes
  • Eye

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

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Silence

• It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

  

  Jill McCorkle
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Silence

• We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • You
  • Stop
  • Silence

• Silence is like a flame, you see?

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Silence

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

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Words

• Meditation is the only way you can grow. Because when you meditate, you are in silence, you are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of awareness takes place.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Way
  • Meditation
  • Awareness

• In the silence

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Sports
  • Silence
  • Communication

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