Silence Quotes

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams

Calmness is the cradle of power.
J. G. Holland

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John Calvin

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
Mos Def

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

If I had any balls whatsoever, I'd make nothing but Jay and Silent Bob flicks for the rest of my life. However, being a critical whore, I've gotta move on and 'grow' beyond those characters.

Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
Spike Milligan

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Allen Ginsberg

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Pythagoras

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Jim Elliot

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Brigham Young

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Samuel Beckett

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
Edith Wharton

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Emily Bronte

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.
Keith Urban

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Silence is the mother of truth.

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.

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

It is hard to sit in silence, to watch one's youth wash away. New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Punctuality is the duty of subjects and the politeness of kings.

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.