Best 3011 quotes in «silence quotes» category

Remember what peace there may be in silence.

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

Restrain yourself... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain.

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

[Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.

Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water," the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.

Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and something might find it, and save it before it disappears forever. Say the sea. Because it's what we have left. Because faced by the sea, we without crosses, without magic, we must still have a weapon, something, so as not to die in silence, that's all.

...science and violence turned silence to rage.

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.

Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.

Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and the subtle sounds—in your body, in the room, in the building, and outside. Listen as if you had just landed from a foreign planet and didn’t know what was making these sounds. See if you can hear all sounds as music being played just for you. Even in what is called silence there is sound. To hear such subtle sound, the mind must be very quiet.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.

Shouldn't that be flipped right-side up?" I asked. "No," she said, eyes on the cards. After several moments of heavy silence, said, "You will destroy that which is undead." I waited about thirty seconds for her to continue, but she didn't. "Wait, that's it?" She nodded. "That's what the cards say to me.

She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Silence creates it's own violence.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

Silence gives the proper grace to women

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

Silence can be the worst ridicule.

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

Silence is a great source of strength.