Quotes About Silence

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.

"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all," was how I was raised, and how I lived for most of my life.

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.

Only cowards hide behind silence.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

The soul lives there in the silent breath.

But the day is spent; And stars are kindling in the firmament, To us how silent--though like ours, perchance, Busy and full of life and circumstance.

Miracles happen in silence... lesser important things create world headlines.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.

You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

No messages. Morale losing altitude.