Quotes About Silence

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

And down the long and silent street,The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet,Crept like a frightened girl.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

O, may my lips someday attain The primal muteness that I've sought - That's like a flawless crystal note, Its purity - from birth sustained.

The careful muffled sound of fruit That plummets, broken from a tree, Amid the constant melody Of the deep silence of the wood…

If the cat waits for long hours, silent beside the crack of the wainscot, it is for pure pleasure. Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.

A man may betray Jesus Christ by speaking too many words, and he may betray him through keeping his mouth shut.

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

He may give you a time spiritually, with no word from Himself at all, just as His Son experienced during His time of temptation in the wilderness.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

The place for the comforter is not that of one who preaches, but of the comrade who says nothing and prays to God about the matter. The biggest thing you can do for those who are suffering is not to talk platitudes, not to ask questions, but to get into contact with God, and the "greater work" will be done by prayer.

Never try to help God fulfill His word. Abram went through thirteen years of silence, but in those years all of his self-sufficiency was destroyed. He grew past the point of relying on his own common sense. Those years of silence were a time of discipline, not a period of God's displeasure.

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The old man was silent: the truth suggested itself to him with the boy's innocent answer. He was tied to a bed of dried leaves in the corner of a wattle hut, but he had not wholly forgotten what the ways of the world were like.

Nobody, except that wise woman, Rosa Bonheur, ever discerned that animals only do not speak because they are endowed with a discretion far and away over that of blatant, bellowing, gossiping, garrulous Man. "Only a dog," indeed I However, the phrase has a pretty, modest, graceful look, so let it stand. Men never are taken at their own valuation by others; and so I suppose dogs cannot expect to be either.

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

Tears at times have all the weight of speech.

The silence isn't so bad, till I look at my hands and feel sad. Because the spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.

OSBOURNE!' he shouted. 'YOU'RE A DISGRACE TO YOURSELF AND TO THIS SCHOOL. BRING ME A SHOE.' The room went so quiet you could have heard a mouse fart.

It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.

The dead, empty weight of perfect silence lay over the little lake behind the barn.

Come up with me, American love.Kiss these secret stones with me.The torrential silver of the Urubambamakes the pollen fly to its golden cup.The hollow of the bindweed's maze,the petrified plant, the inflexible garland,soar above the silence of these mountain coffers.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.