SILENCE QUOTES
quotations about silence
God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence.
MOTHER TERESA
A Gift for God
Silence is like a river of grace inviting us to leap unafraid into its beckoning depths. It is dark and mysterious in the waters of grace. Yet in the silent darkness we are given new eyes. In the heart of the divine we can see more clearly who we are. We are renewed and cleansed in this river of silence. There are those among you who fear the Great Silence. It is a foreign land to you. Sometimes it is good to leap into the unknown. Practice leaping.
MACRINA WIEDERKEHR
Seven Sacred Pauses
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Silence speaks when words can't.
ANONYMOUS
Silence is the most powerful scream.
ANONYMOUS
Silence about a thing just magnifies it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Silence is the mother of Truth.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Tancred
It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Stone Gods
Silence is often the best thing to say.
FRANK HERBERT
Chapterhouse: Dune
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
SAMUEL BECKETT
The Unnamable
When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
"The Touchstone", Fables
Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world
DEPECHE MODE
"Enjoy the Silence"
If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Few people can endure silence for long. They must have some expression outside themselves that corresponds to the unrest of the spirit.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Silence", Reactions and Other Essays
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.
ECKHART TOLLE
Stillness Speaks
Silence never betrays you.
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY
"Rules of the Road"
Silence is a great peacemaker.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Table-Talk
Silence is the speech of love,
The music of the spheres above.
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD
Speech of Love
Silence: the most beautiful voice.
ANONYMOUS
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!
AUGUST STRINDBERG
The Ghost Sonata