Not being heard is no reason for silence.

That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact – it is silence which isolates.

Humility and silence are beautiful graces in young people. Never be ashamed of being a learner: Jesus was one at twelve years; when He was found in the temple, He was “sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions

The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than all other silence

Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

The temple of silence and reconciliation

In the silence between lines, emotions speak the loudest; that’s where the real performance lies.

When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.

Let thy good spirit enter my heart and there be heard without utterance, and without the sound of words speak all truth.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

Silence in the face of injustice is a crime against humanity.

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

Silence does good to the soul

Frequently, only silence can express my prayer

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.

In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said ’looks like we’re a couple of peeing Toms. His angry silence is something I’ll never forget.

I am representing here – the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that’s why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question

One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife

Whose silence are you?

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

Cannibalism is a Western, white imposition. A retrospective racism. Tribal memory, collective dreams and wishful thinking should, if not silence, then at least reduce to a tearful academic whisper any attempt to discredit the lives of Indians. Haven’t they suffered enough?

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.

All we do is think about the feelings that we hide. All we do is sit in silence waiting for a sign.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

You know, you’re going to look awfully silly with that knife sticking up your ass.

A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.

When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

Silence is also conversation.

You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.

Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence with pride and honor.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

Only cowards hide behind silence.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Silence is a continuation of dispute by other means.

The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Gradually I got used to the silence and darkness that surrounded me and forgot that it had ever been different, until she came—my teacher—who was to set my spirit free.

Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Decency is indecency’s conspiracy of silence.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God’s creation embraces me.

I need to kill you. That’s the only way to get you out of my head. Oh, I need to kill you to silence all the sweet little things you said. I really want to kill you, wipe you off the face of my earth and bury your bracelet six feet under the dirt.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart

I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more

I meant to go away into silence, but I have not been able to do what I meant.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

We had taken his silence as a sort of encouragement; necessarily, then, this talk of his was a disappointment to us, for it showed we had made no impression upon him… we knew then how the missionary must feel when he has been cherishing a glad hope and has seen it blighted.

Then her conscience reproached her, and she yearned to say something kind and loving; but she judged that this would be construed into a confession that she had been in the wrong, and discipline forbade that. So she kept silence, and went about her affairs with a troubled heart.

There was not even a zephyr stirring; the dead noonday heat had even stilled the songs of the birds; nature lay in a trance that was broken by no sound but the occasional far-off hammering of a woodpecker, and this seemed to render the pervading silence and sense of loneliness the more profound. The boy’s soul was steeped in melancholy; his feelings were in happy accord with his surroundings

What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t

Your silence will not protect you.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Silence is the best answer to anger.

It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Lions don’t have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don’t talk, and those who talk don’t work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence

Silence is the mother of truth.

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

My love, I fear the silence of your hands.