Silence Quotes

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about."

Rumi

"I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity."

Nadezhda Mandelstam

"Your silence will not protect you."

Audre Lorde

"When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie."

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it."

Criss Jami

"Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir"

Khaled Hosseini

"You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever."

Johnny Depp

"Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end."

John Boyle O'Reilly

"Green was the silence, wet was the light,the month of June trembled like a butterfly."

Pablo Neruda

"Instead of a vow of silence, I took a vow of invisibility. At that time you were looking for someone to love, and that’s why you couldn’t see me."

Jarod Kintz

"I put the sing in single—especially when I’m in the shower. Does anybody have any requests they’d like to shout out while the water’s getting hot? As always, silence all cell phones during the duration of my performance."

Jarod Kintz

"I lost interest in her because she said the wrong thing. She said nothing."

Jarod Kintz

"It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie."

Victor Hugo

"When the silent flamingo dances pink with desire, I’ll be there, sipping on owl stares and kitten curls."

Jarod Kintz

"Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence."

Jarod Kintz

"Silence is expansive, filling up a whole room in seconds, like a balloon filled with awkwardness. It’s amazing how saying nothing can be so different from having nothing to say."

Jarod Kintz

"Be memorable. Say something unforgettable. Be silent."

Jarod Kintz

"Skies are crying,I am watching,Catching teardrops in my hands.Only silence, as it's ending,Like we never had a chance.Do you have to make me feelLike there's nothing left of me?"

Demi Lovato

"At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right"

Miguel de Unamuno

"Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others."

Brennan Manning

"God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears."

Amit Ray

"My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences."

Audre Lorde

"In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone."

Carson McCullers

"This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. Night, sleep, and the stars."

Walt Whitman

"Words are magic. They have the power to hurt and to heal, and even withholding them has the power to hurt and to heal. What else has as much potency in its absence and can do without doing? What I mean is, even when you don’t say anything, you are communicating as effectively as if you’d spoken."

Jarod Kintz

"Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity."

Deepak Chopra

"I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping."

Roman Payne

"Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love."

Amit Ray

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered."

Kahlil Gibran

"Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated."

Wayne W. Dyer

"IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES."

Nadia Sahari

"Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul."

Amit Ray

"Poetic inspiration is all around us, and it surrounds us like silent music that makes our hearts vibrate. Any time you give or receive love, you are a part of a living poem."

Jarod Kintz

"Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don't agree to accept what critics say; be prepared to silence them by doing what they think you can't do!"

Israelmore Ayivor

"Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory."

Dejan Stojanovic

"You need to trustTo surrenderTo ask for guidanceGo within for the answersThey're within youYou have the answersAll you need do is ask"

Karen Hackel

"If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind."

Alice Walker

"Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair."

Criss Jami

"Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions."

Steve Maraboli

"Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power."

T.F. Hodge

"In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success"

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

"Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories."

Criss Jami

"When you are able to understand the language of silence, you will be able to see the beauty of the invisible."

Debasish Mridha

"Мъчителят знае, че човек, подложен на абсолютно мълчание, изгубва разсъдъка си."

Ружа Лазарова

"I wish not to tell you how I feelI choose silence so that you leaveKiss me goodbye and set me free"

Sanhita Baruah

"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn

"The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like."

Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

"Knowing when to be silent makes you seem wiser beyond your years."

Anthony T. Hincks

"You may silence the critics, but you don't silence the pain."

Anthony T. Hincks

"When you think in silence you cannot speak your mind."

Anthony T. Hincks

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