Quotes About Silence

We should pray adequately to be filled with God, to receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit. Then when we come to the meeting, in a sense, we may not need to speak that much.

The man dies in all those that keep silent.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.-Wole Soyinka

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Statt irgendetwas zu sagen, stand er auf und suchte aus eng zusammengekniffenen Augen den Himmel ab. Er wusste nicht, warum er das tat, aber er spürte, dass es wichtig war.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

Stop question, think first. Do not explain, just silence.

Se joac? aerul de-a amintirea: duce cu el toate zgomotele ?i las?-n urm? numai oglinzi de t?cere s? ne putem privi anii ce s-au dus.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

I couldn't believe a mother and her daughter could have so much to say to each other. In my family, no one talked. In my family, people lived like insects, like worms, like slugs hanging on the back door of the house.

The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...

The mathematics stacks were as silent and empty as ever—apparently no one suspected the riches hidden there.

I was glad that I was able to erase your voice. Did you know that an insect will fall silent if you cut off its antennae? It will just sit there, as if frozen, and even refuse to eat. The same as you, really.

No matter how hard I listened, there was never any sign of someone living under the floor, and yet this silence made me all the more conscious of his existence.

I worried that if she were forced to say more, she might shrink farther away and disappear altogether.

When I closed my eyes, the world was filled with sound.

As I headed down the library steps, I turned back to look. The mathematics stacks were as silent and empty as ever. Apparently no one suspected the riches hidden there.

Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence, untouched by fallen hair or mold, silence that the Professor left behind as he wandered through the numbers, silence like a clear lake hidden in the depths of the forest.

Ad what will happen if words disappear? I whispered to myself, afraid that if I said it too loudly, it might come true

And yet, the room was filled by a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence, untouched by fallen hair or mold, silence that the Professor left behind as he wandered through the numbers, silence like a clear lake hidden in the depths of the forest.

When they were gone, a calm fell as though the air itself were breathing with infinite care. The owners turned for home, empty cages in hand. And that was how the birds disappeared.

And what will happen if words disappear?

And what will happen if words disappear? I whispered to myself, afraid that if I said it too loudly, it might come true.