2,656 Quotes About Silence

You know,” he said. “I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.” There was silence, in the high place.

Kyoko sniffs, unable to speak. Sometimes saying nothing means most of all.

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

We teach through our actions, we inspire through our silence.

There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plushly carpeted funeral parlor which is far different from the bleak and terrible silence of grief in a widower's lonely bedroom.

a thought is an action, with the silencearriving priorto non-action

The closest one person can get to another is through silence.

I know, the "I" in me, is silent;You have nothing to say either. Heart is down in the mouth,Lips are closed, Eyes are watering,You are, and your remembrance is. I have no comfort. When I feel you, I feel the life. I know when the lips are silent Heart has many tongues to speakYet, I miss you, I Miss you. How possible is separation from you?? You are my soul and I am yours. In fact, my soul and yours are the same, You appear in me, I in you, We hide in each other.

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.