Quotes About Silence

I don't know. And when I don't, I keep quiet.

IOKASTE. So ging das Gerücht und ist noch nicht verstummt.

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

Prayer is listening.

Anxiety can just as well express itself by muteness as by a scream.

Where I will find peace other than in oblivion?

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.

I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture

Some people will hear you louder in silence. Those are your tribe - they'll get you through the tough days and give you something to laugh about on the ride.

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves, offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

Saddest thing nowadays is that words can kill

I don't talk ill about people I don't know, " said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

The deeper magic always comes, in the intense sorcery of your inner silence.

Writing is not a hobby. It's the only way I get to shut up the demons in my head.

The kind of stillness of being nothing, and doing things from that emptiness, make one strong.

So beautiful but so bountiful.So delicate but so fresh.So magical but so simple.So much to say but yet so silent.So loving and so pleasant.Oh, flowers of charming love, You are life's joy and present.

In my silence and stillness, my soul dances with the ecstasy of life.

Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.

We ought to be silent and listen to the voice of God.