Silence Quotes
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks
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The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.
Christian Metz
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O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Emil Cioran
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If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
Vincent Van Gogh
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There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.
Errol Flynn
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Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.
Charles F. Haanel
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" — Merely this, and nothing more...
Edgar Allan Poe
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To women silence gives their proper grace.
Sophocles
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The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.
Eugene H. Peterson
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That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.
Earl Nightingale
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In the silence, whether we listen to the creation around us, the words of revelation, or the deepest stirrings of our own hearts, we begin to perceive another voice, one that is too often lost in the static of life. It is no use saying: ”Speak, Lord, your servant wants to hear,” if We never risk the silence to listen.
Basil Pennington
