Silence Quotes

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

C. S. Lewis
- Mind
- Achievement
- Race
In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
- America
- Silence
- Defend

Silence is the Sabbath of the soul. Therein we rest, and therein we hear everything.

Marianne Williamson
- Soul
- Rest
- Silence
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Music
- Notes
- Between
The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word."

Coleman Barks
I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside.

William Shatner
- Feelings
- Missing
- Athlete
It speaks to me in the silence of this one then through the words of that one speaking; it whispers to me through an eyebrow raised and the message of an eye winking.

Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi
- Silence
- Speaks
- Whispers
In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

C. S. Lewis
- God
- Silence
- Meditation