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Quotes About Silence

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.
~ Richard Brautigan
At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language.
~ Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
If only tears could speak, they would tell the agony of the eyes.
~ Unknown
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
~ Thomas Merton
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
~ Bob Dylan
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
~ Charles Simic
It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.
~ Pema Chodron
People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.
~ Yi-Fu Tuan
And then for a long time there is a silence that is so loud it threatens to blow my head off.
~ Unknown
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.
~ Confucius
God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.
~ Caryll Houselander
Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.
~ Van Morrison
I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
~ Walt Whitman
Real worship involves waiting.
~ Iris Murdoch
The silence killed your faith.
~ Barack Obama
I'm not crying over what you said; it's what you didn't say that hurts the most.
~ Unknown
Her heart is broken, her eyes are soakin, it's tearing her apart with words unspoken.
~ Unknown
I could fill a thousand pages telling you how I felt and still you would not understand. So now I leave without a sound, except that of my heart shattering as it hits the ground.
~ Unknown
I may look tough, but inside I'm easily broken. My words may seem strong, but inside I've never spoken.
~ Unknown
Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with himself.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
People who can hold their tongues, rarely have any troubles holding their friends.
~ Unknown
Over 80% of people remain quiet even when they really want to say something in order to avoid an argument with someone they care about.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
~ Baltasar Gracian