Quotes About Silence

She went through the days silent and numb, coming alive only with hatred...

In the rest room next door there was a long, explosive sound of gas releasing, then a contented 'Ahhh.' Grace clapped a hand over her mouth to hold back the hysterical giggle that rose in her throat. She had to finish before he did, or he might hear her. The competition was the strangest in which she'd ever engaged.

She said a silent prayer of gratitude and went to the stove, making as little noise as possible, stirring the embers with a poker and then shoving in several sticks of the precious seasoned wood. When the stove was putting out noticeable heat again, she made her way to the hearth and repeated the process, feeling a certain primitive joy as the flames leaped up around the fresh logs, crackling cheerfully and spilling warmth over her bare feet.

room. Angus cleared his throat, and Rafe and Kade stared down at their plates, all signs of their previous amusement

You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.

God would never have granted women a voice if he intended for them to remain silent. God knew that Adam, and our world, would need the voice and influence of women.

God would have never granted women a voice if he intended for them to remain silent. God knew that Adam, and our world, would need the voice and influence of women.

Pain is not what you see and not what you feel. Pain is what you can only hear, alone in the dark.

I don't speak. In this day and age, we all talk too much and hear too little. Listening has become a forgotten art that the world is sorely missing.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence.

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.

The friend of silence comes close to God.

A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.

You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.