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Quotes About Silence

Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.
~ Annie Proulx
I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
~ Mother Teresa
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
~ Sam Heughan
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.
~ William Blake
I'll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.
~ Michelle Hodkin
In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my little room above.
~ Heinrich Heine
I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes He does, just be totally… totally… silent
~ Rumi
I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.
~ Khalil Gibran
Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.
~ Neil Diamond
Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.
~ Renee Zellweger
When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best.
~ Britney Spears
Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say "me" and "mine"; they are only blessed in being instruments
~ Swami Vivekananda
I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.
~ Mike Nichols
God speaks in the silence of the heart.
~ Mother Teresa
I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it.
~ Jorie Graham
What I feel for you can't be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise
~ Katherine Mansfield
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
~ Karl Shapiro
It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.
~ William Baziotes
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
~ Mason Cooley
Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.
~ Richard Henry Stoddard
In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
~ C. S. Lewis
Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.
~ Carl Sandburg