Best 3011 quotes in «silence quotes» category

The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

The tranquility of my room partakes too much of Forest Lawn.

The training part," I guessed. "Yup. You're going to be Dimitri's partner." A moment of funny silence fell, probably not noticeable to anyone except Dimitri and me. Our eyes met. "Guarding partner," Dimitri clarified unnecessarily, like maybe he too had been thinking of other kinds of partners.

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of this silence comes a different kind of creativity.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

The truth will lead me to all.

The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.

The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised, it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.

The two heart-grey puddles: two mouthsfull of silence.

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence.

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.

The very presence of an angel is communication. Even when an angel crosses your path in silence, God has said to us, I am here. I am present in your life.

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.

The wall of silence in the Interior Ministry, which protects those who are widely believed to have ordered this and similar crimes, remains intact.

The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.

The wisdom of the Holy Spirit is much greater than the wisdom of the entire world. Within the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, silence prevails; the wisdom of the world, however, goes astray into idle talk.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination!

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

The worst part was the silence. Death was supposed to be loud — gunshots, explosions, screams and thunder. Not this eerie quiet that wrapped around me like a shroud.

The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.

They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.

They don’t have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.

They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive and mutely beautiful, the birds so sunstruck they were consumed by light, disembodied, turned into something sheer and fleet and scatter-bright.