Quotes About Silence

She talked about how the circuits of a poetic form are not charged on what you say, but what you hold back. The poem is a net that catches the stutters, the hesitations, rather

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

Hoodies up, heads bent, they passed one another in silence, like monks on their way to matins.

No, no," he said. "She can't raise it at all. She may only clap. Women must be very careful of their voices. If

man will silence the voice of his conscience when it suits him to commit sin. But

He was not afraid of silence, which most of us will rush to fill.

He was not afraid of silence, which most of us will rush to fill. And this, too: our holiest men have always gone into the wilderness to hear the voice of the Name. Avram

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.

Every crime like this needs someone like me to look away and say nothing.

The issue regarding the soul's relation to the state is posed with great force by Plato but also by More, not only in his fictional Utopia but also in later life when the issue would arise in a dramatically personal way because he found that neither laws nor rhetorical speech could save him from execution for a silence that he insisted was required by his soul.6

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

No answer is also an answer.

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.

She, however, stood and said nothing. / Small, unnoticed, she stood in the crowd, listened, and said / nothing.

The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.

What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question

Estaba muerta, ése era ahora su estado natural y pacífico. Como si nunca hubiera sido otra cosa: de repente pétrea, muerta y neutra, una cosa.