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Quotes About Silence

In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your thoughts but to your feelings.
~ Frederick Lenz
People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.
~ Gillian Flynn
To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
~ Rumi
I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.
~ Russell T Davies
One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.
~ Thomas Merton
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
~ Mason Cooley
Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.
~ Paulo Coelho
As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.
~ Rajneesh
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
In love matters; keep your pen from paper.
~ Alfred de Musset
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
When you're in love, you don't need words. A look, a touch, a sigh – you've said it all.
~ Juliet Mills
Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her.
~ Joanna Newsom
The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.
~ Kenny Chesney
Solomon warned us not to rush into God's presence with words. That's what fools do. And often, that's what we do.
~ Francis Chan
No love can survive muteness.
~ Milan Kundera
Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.
~ Rumi
Love is language that cannot be said, or heard.
~ Rumi
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
~ Susanna Clarke