Quotes About Silence

I saw nothing more now than the pallor of my face, with deep orbits, buried in the twilight, and my mouth filled with a silence which gently but surely stifles and destroys.

My silent comrade, who is making great strides with lowered head, points out a field: "The cemetery," he says; "it was there before it was everywhere, before it laid hold on everything without end, like a plague.

L'amour chante, silencieux, Les ténèbres ouvrent tes yeux.

Tu nous domines de silence, Tu nous hantes d'éternité.

Hélas, ô sacrifice, ô gloire, Ô silence qui va saigner.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

Qui cache son fou, meurt sans voix

He who hides his madman dies voiceless.

Seul, Être à soi-même son pain, Et encore, il s'engrange qu'il dit, Et pète par toutes les fissures. En blocs, en lames, en jets et en cristal, Mais derrière le mur de ses paroles, C'est un grand sourd.

Study is the child of silence and mystery.

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

We see the clouds of summer go and come, And thirsty verdure praying them to give: We cry, "O Nature, tell us why we live!" She smiles with beauty, but her lips are dumb.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

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.

We fail to praise the ceaseless ministry of the great inanimate world around us only because its kindness is unobtrusive. Nature is always noiseless. All her greatest gifts are given in secret. And we forget how truly every good and perfect gift comes from without, and from above, because no pause in her changeless beneficence teaches us the sad lessons of deprivation.

Many believers are silent concerning Christ, worried that they may not know enough or that they will say the wrong thing about Christ. However, the Lord can use any believer's speaking. What any believer can say for sure with one hundred percent accuracy is, 'I have found Him and 'come and see.