2,656 Quotes About Silence

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame.Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as if it were a precious thing.

I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born.

There is no real silence for the sensitive ears and there is no real tranquility for the sensitive hearts!

The most perfect gift you can give to a silent corner of the world is silence!

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it....You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.

...in truth, there is no state that better demonstrates real firmness of affection than the ability to remain quietly comfortable together without conversation.

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

If you have forgotten the eternal peace of silence, go to a place where silence is in infinite stillness and feel that eternal peace again in your whole soul!