Quotes About Silence

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

In the dark, there is silence but in the light there is warmth.

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden "Hush

I'm a busy author with a sense of Humor, so hang, it's a bumpy ride"!

You don't have to be a professional to express an experienced opinion. Often times, the professionals are silent...or biased...

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.