Quotes About Silence

When he plays on snow, he doesn't leave any footprints.

Now he seeks truth in silence. He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth, stillness, and God.

He who speaks least has the most power.

Betrayals start that way, with lies hidden in the shadows of silence.

Nothing is emptier than an empty house. The vacant kitchen chair, the imprint on a sofa cushion, the pillow unsplayed with hair, absent of scent. An unspoken thought, an unshared laugh, the silence of no footsteps, no sighs, no breaths.

Shut up! We can't hear the mimes! —Jacques Prévert Les Enfants du Paradis

Mexico is a cemetery for secrets.

If that's all that troubles you, here, take my veil, wrap it round your head and hold your tongue. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.

Él que menos habla es el más chingón. He who speaks least has the most power.

Fish that don't open their mouths don't get caught.

The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth.

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation." —JALALUDDIN RUMI

Don't move," he said, in a voice that was forty percent gravel and sixty percent inert materials.

huddled together at the left end of the bar, as silent and miserable as kittens in a sack with the bridge getting close.

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

donald justice: i often wonder about the others, where they are bound for on the voyage, what is the reason for their silence, was there some reason to go away?

Listen to the murmur of water and you'll hear Mother Nature. Listen to the stillness beneath, and there you'll find God.

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

i never learned anything while i was talking.

Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.