Quotes About Silence

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep

When awful darkness and silence reignOver the great Gromboolian plain,Through the long, long wintry nights.

He has ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers,Leastways if you reckon two thumbs;Long ago he was one of the singers,But now he is one of the dumbs.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." ~Samuel Johnson

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

If it was true what her mother had once told her, then nothing rang the telephone like death in the middle of the night.

A few women had cried, remembering the way Henry smiled or how he would join them in singing or thinking that the death ofanyone, good or bad, master or not, cut down one more tree in the life forest that shielded them from their own death; but most said or did nothing.

I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words.

This time he was going to fall apart silently.

Mine is the night, with all her stars.

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

He went downAs when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,Goes down with a great shout upon the hills,And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.

The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.

The "dead of winter" ----- how much more dead it would be each year without the birds!

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

A blind figure never can be a reliable and authentic eyewitness and evidence; however, stay silent since justice is blind too.

A substantial and beautiful victory of all victories is to overcome your tongue.

Being silent does not mean you are the right or a wise if you do not prove that; otherwise, it is also the escape from the reality

Feeding the birds is a fabulous and glorious charity since they neither can speak nor ask.

Journalists voluntarily fight for human rights and freedom of speech; whereas, they stay silent, for their rights and journalistic freedom, on the will and restrictions of the boss of media. Indeed, it verifies that: The nearer the church, the farther from god.

Love only breathes when its visibility waves itself. However, love is silence, or it sounds; it airs its fragrance.

Our silence on injustice, cruelty, violation, atrocities and ruthless killing actions describe the evil has controlled our heart and mind. Let's only pray for the reborn of the real leader of justice.

Reality speaks itself; it needs nothing for that.

Silence heals grief and pain of the soul caused by bitter and ugly attitudes.