Silence Quotes - Page 7

The most boring thing in the world? Silence.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!

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

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

Silence is the best reply to a fool.

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

So many of you have lost everything. I do not know what to tell you. But surely he knows what to tell you! So many of you have lost members of your family. I can only be silent; I accompany you silently, with my heart...

The root of prayer is interior silence.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

One nice thing about silence is that it can't be repeated.

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.