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Quotes About Silent

Dogs are like that, I guess—they know how to fix you without ever saying a word.
~ Caroline George, The Vestige
Which is the least spoken language, world-wide?The language of Truth
~ Haritha Velpureddy
We are adaptable creatures. It's the source of our earthly comfort and, I suppose, of our silent rage goodreads
~ Michael Cunningham
That was how he felt safest. Revealing nothing.
~ Michael Ondaatje
What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?
~ Mary C. Ames
Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.
~ Bill Bryson
The others were silent and only seemed to be encouraging Trump. Porter was appalled that the president was even considering a preemptive withdrawal from NAFTA.
~ Bob Woodward
Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
~ Susanna Kaysen
I'm so jealous I can't speak.
~ Sylvia Plath
Me sentía muy tranquila y muy vacía, como debe de sentirse el ojo de un tornado que se mueve con ruido sordo en medio del estrépito circundante.
~ Sylvia Plath
She. Silent, fawn-eyed. Clever.
~ Sylvia Plath
I do not like to think of all the things, familiar, useful and worthy things, I have never put into a poem.
~ Sylvia Plath
There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
~ T.S. Eliot
Silent they were, and clad in black, the men and the women; even the children. And their faces were all the same, and gazed at Cyrion in the same way. They gazed at him as if he were the last bright day in their lives, the last bright coin in the otherwise empty coffer.
~ Tanith Lee
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
~ Francis of Assisi
Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.
~ Francis of Assisi
Go into all the world and preach the gospel, and if necessary, use words.
~ Francis of Assisi
Oh to be an angel (if there were any!), and go straight up into the sky and look around and then come down not to be covered with steel and aluminum glaringly ugly in the pure distances and clattering and buckling, wheezing but to be part of the treetops and the blueness, invisible, the iridescent darknesses beyond, silent, listening to the air becoming no air becoming air again
~ Frank O'Hara
Death had no lips, but it was smiling.
~ Franny Billingsley
A white Christmas fills the churchyard.
~ French proverb
Jesus reaches out to the suffering world from the silent center where he stands in full attentiveness to his Father.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
You cannot give anything more important than the Love reflected in your own life. That is the one true universal language, which allows us to speak Chinese or the dialects of India. For if, one day, you go to those places, the silent eloquence of Love will mean that you will be understood by everyone.
~ Henry Drummond
Death was more like what we went through in the park: two people walking side by side in the mist, rubbing against trees and bushes, and not a word between them. It was something emptier than the name itself and yet right and peaceful, dignified, if you like.
~ Henry Miller