Silence Quotes

• Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.

  

  David Samuels
  • People
  • Reading
  • Tolerance

• Dare, will, keep silence.

  

  William Bolitho
  • Silence

• Art destroys silence.

  

  Alicia Ostriker
  • Art
  • Silence
  • Destroys

• [Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity].

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

  

  Michael Ryan Pritchard Green Day
  • Life
  • Silence
  • Be present

• I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Found
  • Friendly
  • Indifferent

• Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Faith

• He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Sleep
  • inspirational
  • Noise

• The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Catch
  • Axis
  • Revolving

• Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Joy
  • Silence
  • Littles

• When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

  

  André Brink
  • Truth
  • Silence
  • Word

• Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care. Deepen your love for one another by praying for each other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have received in prayer and reading.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Soul
  • Reading
  • Jesus

• We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Silence
  • Sat
  • Envisioning

• A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Music
  • Art
  • Painting

• Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Silence
  • Resistance
  • Provocative

• My feelings for you shame me into silence.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Feelings
  • Silence
  • Shame

• The very first part in healing is shattering the silence.

  

  Erin Merryn
  • Silence
  • Healing
  • Shattering

• What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.

  

  Alexey Leonov
  • Heart
  • Stars
  • Sunlight

• I'm really starting to learn the value of silence and meditation. I keep my sanity in the middle of a hectic day by taking some me time or sometimes watching a guilty pleasure on TV, doing absolutely nothing, or just hanging out with friends and family. They keep me grounded and centered.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Pleasure
  • Guilty
  • Meditation

• We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Silence
  • Refute
  • Assertions

• For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Silence
  • Evils
  • Remedies

• Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Language
  • Silence

• Realize that the Silence offers an ever available and almost unlimited opportunity for awakening the highest conception of Truth. Try to comprehend that Omnipotence itself is absolute silence; all else is change, activity, limitation. Silent thought concentration is therefore the true method of reaching, awakening and then expressing the wonderful potential power of the world within.

  

  Charles F. Haanel
  • World
  • Trying
  • Opportunity

• One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • Silence
  • Concepts

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