Quotes About Silence

God heard the cries and groans of the enslaved Hebrews and moved to act for their deliverance long before they knew anything about it. God is at work on our behalf even when He appears silent.

Hay ocasiones cuando Dios quiere que estemos sentados en su presencia en silencio. No quiere que seamos nosotros los que siempre hablemos. Como lo expresa Isaías 30:15: «En quietud y en confianza será vuestra fortaleza».

aun cuando hagamos silencio, sutilmente estamos diciendo algo.

Spoil not an act of kindness by speaking of it.

Strong love paralyzes the vocal cords, leaving the functions of speech to looks, hugs, and osculation.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul, and the language of our spirit...

Night lies beside me Chaste and cold as a sharp sword. It and I alone.

The veil concealing truth gets windswept in the wee hours, revealing all to the silence of the night.

A wolf howls his soul into the misty night. The moon answers with glowing silence.

Night — the quiet of solitude — the silence of loneliness

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. Virgil, if I remember right, refers to it several times, but with too much Roman restraint. He does not let himself go on cheese. Except Virgil and the anonymous rhymer of "If all the trees were bread and cheese," I can recall no verse about cheese. Yet it has every quality which we require in exalted poetry. It is a short, strong word, and it rhymes to "breeze" and "seas." Cheese has also variety, the very soul of song.

The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it.

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it.

[Silence] is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality disturb us.

It were vain for me to endeavor to interrupt the Silence. She cannot be done into English. For six thousand years men have translated her with what fidelity belonged to each, and still she is little better than a sealed book. A man may run on confidently for a time, thinking he has her under his thumb, and shall one day exhaust her, but he too must at last be silent...

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

The Arctic expresses the sum total of all wisdom. Silence. Nothing but silence...

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

Silence is the parent of wise thoughts, — the mark of a well composed mind.

"Where little is done, little is said," observed Sheikh Hassan, "and Silence is the mother of Truth..."

What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?...

We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.