Quotes About Silence

Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

Sarah...loved the way the light lit the silence first thing in the morning.

We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an encounter with Him who created us and loves us more than mother and father.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

Don't go running off at the mouth. Let the picture tell the story. No one tunes in to hear you broadcast the game, except maybe your mother or your wife.

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.

Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.

I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.

Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

There are things better left unknown.matters better left untoldand things better left unsettled.