Quotes About Silence

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Happiness is speechless.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.

That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.

I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

Some things need to be left unsaid.

Winter is a time for going inward. For tending to the unseen.

Spend time in silence. Take time to get to know yourself and your genius in stillness.

sometimes I feel my heart fall to vague depths between words there are such spaces that I can't help but feel my heart fall between the pregnant pause of all you will not say and all i can not ask

I hope the teacher doesn't say, 'Write an essay about your summer vacation.' If she does, I'll leave the paper blank. Else I'll have to lie. Say eviction is the best vacation. Hearing Ma weeping and Pa wheezing, cracking his knuckles while Leda sucks her pacifier, double-time, and Ray holds my hand. I never lie. I won't. It's better to keep quiet.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Sometimes, silence is loud.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.