Quotes on Silence

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.

ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.

Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

Great souls suffer in silence.

Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

Worse even than your maddening song, your silence.