Quotes about silence
silence becoming becoming-you
In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself. Jewel
silence enemy progress
If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress. Jeff Buckley
silence consequence
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too. Jean-Paul Sartre
silence silent pleasure
All the great pleasures of life are silent. Georges Clemenceau
silence church dams
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes. Georges Bataille
silence violence rage
...science and violence turned silence to rage. Emily Saliers
silence sound
It takes some silence to make sound. Jason Mraz
silence presidential acting
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Herbert Hoover
silence body hearing
Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face. Evelyn Glennie
silence needs used
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it. Ernest Hemingway
silence gestures sometimes
Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else. Etty Hillesum
silence contentment desire
I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence. Jhonen Vasquez
silence ears desert
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. Graham Greene
silence saying-nothing
You can't improve on saying nothing. Golda Meir
silence threat difficult
Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth. Harriet Lerner
silence independence opinion
there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince. Harriet Beecher Stowe
silence delicacy charm
the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.
silence strategy used
Even God used silence as a strategy. Gregory Maguire
silence bears heard
He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.. Ignatius of Loyola
silence faithful rewards
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence. [Lat., Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.] Horace
silence mind way
The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence. Guy Finley
silence solitude secret
There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.
silence facts love-to-read
I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life. Giancarlo Esposito
silence conspiracy decency
Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence George Bernard Shaw
silence soul secret
Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone. Frederick William Robertson
silence depth divine
There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
silence blunt instruments
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. Erica Jong
silence needs said
Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.
silence world language
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. George Steiner
silence honor badges
Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again. George R. R. Martin
silence secret wavelength
Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working. Jean Cocteau
silence acting crafts
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. Federico Fellini
silence captured
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me. Ezra Pound