Quotes About Silence

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man. Always the seer is a sayer.

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.

All that is required to realise the Self is to "Be Still.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of silence.

Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.

Controlling speech and breath, and diving deep within oneself — like one who, to find a thing that has fallen into water, dives deep down — one must seek out the source whence the aspiring ego springs.

Silence is also conversation.

It is beyond words or thoughts.

Prayer is not verbal; it is from the Heart. To merge into the Heart is prayer. That is also Grace. (p. 237)

What the mind has to do is not to suggest a reply, but to remain quiet so that the true reply can arise.

Any form of art can be known only in deep silence, to be in silence is to be receptive - No sooner you become receptive, you become woman, it has nothing to do with gender, its a quality, which is why woman is epitome of Receptivity!"

Everybody listens to Nobody!

One day I finally decided, that there is no point sharing my feelings, You don't enjoy..."

Sometimes even expressing is a curse!

Your silence conveyed more than what I spoke!

The couple who spoke against the worthless corona protocol in Delhi yesterday have real guts, rest of the people under brutality are spineless and mute spectators and those who are saying against those couple are morons.

Bad things happen when good people remain silent.

Nor did he regard his partial deafness as an impediment. He claimed that the deafness was actually an advantage, freeing him from time-wasting small talk and giving him undisturbed time to "think out my problems." Late in life he would say that he was fortunate to have been spared "all the foolish conversation and other meaningless sounds that normal people hear.