Silence Quotes

• The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Wish
  • Silence
  • Fight

• Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his drink. "Half-hour or hour?" he inquired. There was a long silence. "Lifelong," I replied.

  

  Carol Muske-Dukes
  • Long
  • Party
  • Drink

• There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Silence
  • Errors

• 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

• I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.

  

  Steven Holl
  • Silence
  • Young
  • Grew Up

• 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

• Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

  

  Catherine Doherty
  • Speech
  • Terrible
  • Gentle

• By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Silence
  • Story
  • Loud

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

  

  Erin Merryn
  • Silence
  • Healing
  • Shattering

• People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."

  

  Esther Perel
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Thought will not work except in silence.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Work
  • Thought
  • Silence

• And then there creptA little noiseless noise among the leaves,Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

  

  John Keats
  • Silence

• It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.

  

  William Barclay
  • Perfect
  • Christian
  • Religion

• What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Silence
  • Barrier

• Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

  

  William Blake
  • Life
  • Monster
  • Rocks

• Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world. Take them away and those voices turn inwards or vanish. Turns out that libraries have nothing at all to do with silence.

  

  Bella Bathurst
  • Children
  • Provide
  • Libraries

• But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Quiet
  • Stranger
  • Loner

• The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Speak

• I'm writing a story in my journal, and I'm searching for a true voice. I make my way through layers of acquired voices, silly voices, sententious voices, voices that are too cool and too overheated. Then they all quiet down, and I reach what I'm searching for: silence.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Story
  • Voice
  • Journal

• The whole Orion zeitgeist, of treating filmmakers as partners, to me it's inseparable from the success of 'Silence of the Lambs'.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Success
  • Silence

• I reshuffled the cards that by now we knew well enough. I spoke of the before and the after, of the old generation and of ours, of how we were different, of how she and Stefano were different. And this last argument made a breach, seduced her, I returned to it passionately. She listened to me in silence, evidently she wanted to be helped to compose herself, and slowly she did.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Different
  • Generation
  • Compose

• You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • God
  • Freedom
  • Congregation

• Each found her greatest safety in silence.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Silence
  • Safety
  • Found

• But i don't care. Because we can say them or not; it doesn't matter. What is in our heats is real whether we name it or let it exist only in darkness and silence.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Heart
  • Silence
  • Don't Care

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