Quotes About Silence

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?

When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us to make choices that bring us more happiness, health, love, meaning, and peace.

I say nothing, because I was able to get Barack Obama to produce [birth certificate]. He should have produced it a long time before. I say nothing.

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

When the world stops, time stops.

You must try to forget all you have learned," said the old man. "You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

You may see all that is around you But you may feel nothing at all. So try and close your eyes so tight And listen to the night time fall.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

There's No Such Thing as a Bad Meditation. Any Time you Spend in Silence is Valuable

Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.

Take time to be quiet.

Nobody said anything that time. Or maybe I just wasn't listening. After all, someone had to keep an eye on the fridge.

You need to have time to really hear God.

The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.

Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.