Quotes About Silence

You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.

Shut up. For the rest of this conversation, you don't say anything. When I tell you what you did wrong, you don't say you're sorry, because I already know you're sorry. And when you drive outta here alive, you don't thank me for being alive. And you don't even say goodbye to me.

Actually, I've been thinking about that," Tristan said, and finally sat down again. "It's the dog that didn't bark.

so efficient it doesn't waste power by making noise

Like any librarian in Reality, this daemon can move around without audible footfalls.

Crying loudly is childish, in that it reflects a belief, on the cryer's part, that someone is around to hear the noise, and come a-running to make it all better. Crying in absolute silence, as Daniel does this morning, is the mark of the mature sufferer who no longer nurses, nor is nursed by, any such comfortable delusions.

There was silence around the big table in the Banana.

for now, none of the lights are on and that's all there is, black steel and slate sky.

My hand has stopped writing There is no talk in my mouth.

These women stared out from the canvases with arched brows, enormous eyes and tiny mouths, seeing much, and saying little.

Sometimes it was better to say nothing than to fill a void badly.

Silence. Silence! And in silence ponder the similitudes between cannons and mouths. The simpleton beholds a cannon and phant'sies it an infallible destroyer of foes. But the veteran artilleryman knows that sometimes, when a cannon speaks, it bursts. Especially when it has been loaded in haste. When this occurs, Daniel, the foe is untouched.

The snow moved a little and gave me a void in front of my face - air for a moment. Most importantly it kept me from panicking, and let me open my eyes. There was a dim blue-grey light. I could hear Arsibalt saying Just enough to read by! and Lio answering If only you'd thought to bring a book.

On certain hilltops grew spruce forests, as fine and dense and soft-looking as the pelts of Arctic mammals. When the wind gusted through these, a sound issued from them that was like icy water hurrying over sharp stones. But most of the land was covered with heather, gone scab-colored for the winter. There the wind was silent, except for the raucous buller that it made as it banged around in the porches of Daniel's ears like a drunk burglar.

Truth and God are found in the same place: in the silence.

Every tounge bit had another word to say.

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

never touching, never talking, just smiling and keeping our eyes locked.

You see how the words work? They betray your mouth and walk away.