Quotes and Sayings About Silence

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
-- A. E. Housman

#Cheer #Silence #Sound

Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
-- A. Lee Martinez

#Eye #Silence #Looks

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
-- A. M. Rosenthal

#Lying #Silence #Important

Only silence perfects silence.
-- A. R. Ammons

#Silence

Silence is a text easy to misread.
-- A.A. Attanasio

#Silence #Easy #Silence Is

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
-- Aaron Spelling

#Silence #Television #Violence

Hello Rush," she said, breaking the silence. The sound of her voice almost sent me to my knees. God, I'd missed her voice. "Blaire," I managed to say, terrified that I'd scare her away just by speaking.
-- Abbi Glines

#Voice #Silence #Scare

As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.
-- Abbi Glines

#Silence #Doubt #Waterfalls

Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.
-- Abby May Alcott

#Pride #Silence #Yoke

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
-- Aberjhani

#Silence #Grace #Mercy

And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.
-- Adam Hochschild

#Silence #Trying #Events

These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.
-- Adelaide Crapsey

#Fall #Snow #Silence

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Writing #Silence #Sound

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Silence #Overcoming #Break

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
-- Adyashanti

#Silence #Meditation #Different

In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.
-- Adyashanti

#Simple #Giving #Silence

There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
-- Adyashanti

#Space #Silence #Listening

When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
-- Adyashanti

#Silence #Brain #Answers

This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.
-- Adyashanti

#Silence #Mind #Looks

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
-- Aeschylus

#Silence #Speech #Misery

We can't stand the silence because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
-- Agnes de Mille

#Thinking #Silence #Faces

I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.
-- Agyness Deyn

#Texas #Paris #Silence

Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.
-- Ahmad Shamloo

#Silence #Secret Love #Deeds

To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Heart #Grieving #Silence

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
-- Aime Cesaire

#Silence #Poetic #Born

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#Running #Long #Silence

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
-- Ajahn Brahm

#Freedom #Thinking #Silence

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.
-- Al Roker

#College #Silence #Black

Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere
-- Alain Finkielkraut

#Silence #Clamor

When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Spiritual #Husband #Silence