Silence Quotes: Embracing the Power and Wisdom of Stillness
The Language of Silence: Unveiling the Profound Impact of Stillness
Silence, with its gentle presence and profound depth, has the ability to speak volumes. It is the absence of noise, the space where thoughts are born, and the sanctuary where wisdom resides. In this article, we delve into the world of silence, presenting a collection of quotes that celebrate its transformative power, the solace it brings, and the lessons it teaches us about introspection and inner peace.
Silence is not mere emptiness; it is a canvas upon which our minds can paint, our hearts can listen, and our souls can find solace. It invites us to slow down, reflect, and connect with the essence of our being. By exploring the realm of silence, we gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
Whispers of Wisdom: Quotes that Illuminate the Power of Silence
From philosophers, poets, and individuals who have experienced the serenity of silence, we gather words that capture the essence of stillness. These quotes invite us to embrace the quietude, recognize the wisdom it holds, and find solace in moments of silence. Below, we present a collection of silence quotes that celebrate its transformative power, inspire self-reflection, and encourage us to seek inner peace.
In the same way that Egypt and Libya conspired to ‘disappear’ my father and silence writers such as Idris Ali, they made me, too, to a far lesser extent, feel punished for speaking out.
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn’t talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
People often ask me why I continue to speak out if it’s hurting my family. But that’s exactly why I speak out. The people Erdogan is targeting are my family, my friends, my neighbors, my classmates. I need to speak out, or my country will suffer in silence.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers… clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
My favorite movie of all time is ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’ I think Hannibal Lecter is the scariest movie monster ever because he’s smarter than you are.
Silence is the mother of truth.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Silence is an ornament for women.
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
Every time I speak up about anything to do with women or ethnic minorities, hundreds of messages pour in to attempt to silence or frighten me.
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives.
I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It’s not the outside world – it’s your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
I am not going to stand by as people like Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg silence the voices of millions of conservatives.
My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, ‘So… you’re black.’
I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really.
One of my biggest fears as a director is that everything is taking too long on camera. The actor saying their lines, the silence between lines, the length of time it takes to walk from A to B. So you try it at different speeds and then see what sticks in the edit room.
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.
That’s the thing about abuse – it can make the victim feel an overwhelming sense of shame, a shame so disabling that one suffers in silence.
In politics there is plenty of division, hostility, tribalism, posturing; but there’s almost no curiosity. Instead of wondering why someone holds a certain set of beliefs and asking how they came to them, it is easier to gather a mob and silence opposing viewpoints by force.
Imams seldom condemn terror. And in their silence, in the void, acceptance – encouragement even – is assumed.
There may be something good in silence. It’s a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.
The silence caused by politicizing speech is deafening.
If at noon you sit down and there’s just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn’t exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There’s something empowering about that.
We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.
I have always said that the debate about who should play in goal is part of the game, but I never play in order to silence anyone.
The crowd reaction is something that I definitely love. When I first started if I walked out from behind that curtain and heard a pin drop or deafening silence, then you have to look at switching something up.
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it’s important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.
It’s time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
People feel really uncomfortable when there’s silence.
Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn’t a them/us issue; we are all on the scale somewhere. So we must be very careful to resist ignorance and combat the stigma that leads to dangerous silence.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Sometimes silence is the best way to shut down an awkward conversation.
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
Going across the Tannai Desert was one of the spookiest experiences I’ve ever had. Not driving during the day; that was fine. And so we camped in an old sort of truck siding, I think. And the silence. The eerie silence and then a dingo howling, and it was just so spooky. I didn’t sleep all night.
I now realize Melania is not a normal woman. Two women had described having sex with her husband on national TV in graphic detail in the same week. Her private response: It’s politics.’ Her public response: dead silence. It just wasn’t a human reaction.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
I do sing a bit, a solo called ‘Rubies,’ and the female vocals on ‘In Paradisum,’ ‘The Sound of Silence,’ and ‘Sapphire Clouds’.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with ‘Silence of the Lambs’ was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.
I definitely have to make sure I have my Jamaican playlist whenever I go, and you’ve gotta listen to Popcaan. I really love his song ‘Silence,’ but the whole album, ‘Forever,’ is good. I love his melodies and flows. He just knows how to make good songs.
The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.
I feel like there’s a dignity in silence and I think if I retaliate to negativity with negativity then we’ve evened out. And I don’t need to even that out because if somebody’s being negative, I need to be the better person.
With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world’s most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple’s silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
In ‘Silence,’ there was no improvisation at all; really, you’re dealing with a script and a 17th century way of speaking.
As someone who spent a lot of years living in Jerusalem, one of the great perks is that when you come back, and you get into these Israel arguments in your American-Jewish clan, you can really just silence them by saying, ‘I lived there.’ So we used it like a bludgeon.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There’s something about holding that richness.
In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.
My perfect partner has to understand my silence as well as my needs, this is a very important factor for me.
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.
In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
When I’m sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it’s silence and despair! It’s not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.
I’ve seen ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ like, fifty or sixty times. That’s my favorite movie of all time.
It’s very intense to be in front of a live audience. It’s just an amazing experience. It’s dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It’s electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you’re on this other planet.
Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump’s latest racism are telling you who they really are.
Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with the complicity, silence and inaction of his siblings, destroyed my father. I can’t let him destroy my country.
There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
‘The Look of Silence’ is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. It’s distributed by two government bodies, the National Human Rights Commission and the Jakarta Arts Council.
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
We know no one is perfect, but what we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept, is a person or company that knows dangers exists and says nothing – literally, silence can kill.
What I am already dreaming about is the roar of the take-off, followed by the absolute silence as we go into orbit, and then seeing Earth outside my window.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
There’s a degree of deception in silence.
Ever since I can remember, I hated silence. I wanted it filled with guitars and melodies to sing all day.
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
I’m familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.
I am rather inclined to silence.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Silence is the most powerful state.
In a relationship when things are really great you don’t need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don’t know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don’t want to stop talking because you don’t want to lose one another.
They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.
It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.
Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.
Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.
To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can’t imagine what that’s like.
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
Silence, exile, cunning and so on… it’s my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
In horror movies today it’s lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
Silence is so accurate.
Silence can be a very powerful tool. Sometimes it’s more powerful to leave you with nothing.
Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.
Only silence perfects silence.
The silence of the room is as important as the music.
As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute’s silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.
When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that’s when the silence comes closer; that’s when next isn’t the least bit theoretical or abstract.
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people – so ignoring it doesn’t make a difference.
I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.
I lived around the man who was the model for Buffalo Bill in the movie ‘Silence of the Lambs.’
In talking about my cancer with family and friends, I feel the love that I know will get me through this. The old strategy of suffering in silence could not have been more misguided.
‘Silence Kid’ starts with a broken classic-rock intro. It’s funny to hear us do that. Obviously, we weren’t skillful rock stars. Then it’s spinning through a lot of hooks really fast, and all of a sudden, it’s over.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Turgenev’s achievement lies in how he succeeded, in spite of himself, his country, and his time, in exempting his work from public duty. This has given it that unnameable quality that makes every sentence true, every silence trustworthy.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.
When you are interviewing someone, never let your camera person turn off the camera. The second you turn off the camera, they’ll say the magic thing that you’d been looking for the whole interview. People want to relax after the performance is done. Don’t be afraid of awkward silence. That is your friend.
Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood – I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won’t be met by silence.
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.
I began to think that if you’re a stutterer, it’s about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
You haven’t partied until you’ve partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn’t even know existed.
Fosse would say that it’s important to trust silence. He very much liked the use of the tacit, or silent, count, where nothing is happening. He also liked percussion. His is a world of angular movement and mystery, quiet, semi-taciturn and percussive.
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile… a stain upon the silence.
Silence is safer than speech.
I’ll tell you – what I can tell you is that I know when I saw ‘Zodiac’ and then again when I saw ‘No Country For Old Men,’ there was a moment in each of my viewing experiences where I went, ‘Dammit, this is scarier than ‘Silence Of The Lambs.”
We should not silence our nation’s researchers.
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Many people with mental illness suffer in silence, afraid to seek help for fear of victimisation.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
I once went on a date where the girl drove and so couldn’t drink. I was nervous, so drank quite a bit – it didn’t end amazingly. As much as I love movies, I think cinema dates can be weird because you essentially sit next to each other in silence for a couple of hours.
Under the leaden sway of Alexander III’s government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.
Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
French men can be very tough too, you know… Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don’t have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
Silence is the residue of fear.
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
It’s very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
I love silence.
If I’m walking down the street, and if a person abuses me, the dignified thing to do is to keep walking, but if that person starts throwing stones into my home and affects the well-being of me and my family, then that silence is no longer strength; that silence becomes weakness.
I would like to take a moment of silence to remember all those who lost their lives at the hands of ISIS, especially Americans James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and, most recently, Kayla Mueller.
We want the game to be attractive to a new audience, but you have to be careful because there are certain traditions this game upholds. Silence over the swing, that’s always been there. That’s not understood by those who don’t play golf.
I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
Lilliet Berne, La Generale, newly returned to Paris after a year spent away, the Falcon soprano whose voice was so delicate it was rumored she endangered it even by speaking, her silences as famous as her performances.
Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they don’t like something, they let you know – with silence.
I have studied psychology and practised as well, that helps me read auras, minds and silence too at times.
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
White fragility doesn’t always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.
Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.
In theater, what I loved were wordless plays and working in silence.
I don’t think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what’s floating around in our noggin.
To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold – brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There’s something beneath the outrage – an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.
Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time… then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone’s last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.
Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.
No parent, family member, or friend should be told that treatment isn’t available for their loved one. By establishing a dedicated and stable fund for mental health, we will give hope to so many who are suffering in silence.
Spend as much time as you can in silence. Look at the way the sun paints the ground gold.
In my own life, I had gone from Maryland State Honors Chorus and writing and singing my own songs to a musical silence. It seemed the busier my work life would get, the less I had to feed the other parts of my own soul, including the arts.
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
By the time I got to ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ I was madly in love with close-ups because I’m madly in love with actors, and a basic premise of ‘Silence of the Lambs’ is the story about two people fighting their way into each other’s heads.
As editor, I think we need to act more decisively on what kind of material appears on the ‘Guardian’. Those who argue that this is an affront to freedom of speech miss the point. That freedom counts for little if it is used to silence others.
Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
I move in silence. I don’t like puttin’ too much of me out there to be dissected, analyzed.
‘The Look of Silence’ was an unforgettable, chilling documentary.
I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television; before long, there was this procession of people of all kinds walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
If there’s a silence in a room I’ll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible.
To put it crudely, ‘The Act of Killing’ would blast open the space for the more delicate film, ‘The Look of Silence,’ to do its work.
People are dying to tell you their secrets; it’s just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they’ve said.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Free speech is carelessly tossed to one side in order to silence views and people that liberals label as intolerant.
Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
Most American adults know what a drag queen is, but as they’re portrayed in films like ‘Dressed to Kill’ and ‘Silence of the Lambs.’
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
I don’t listen to music a lot in that I rarely sit down and put on a CD because I really want to treasure the silence that is there when I’m not practising. But when I listen to a piece, I listen to it often.
Silence is accepting the unacceptable when it comes from anybody.
What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant perspective emerges that often silences opposition; that experts move with the prevailing winds, often hero-worshipping their own gurus.
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
For those of us who aren’t great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you’re an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you’re doing everyone a favor.
From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.
Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in ‘Silence of the Lambs?,’ I don’t think so, no. It’s called acting, people.
The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this country. Silence is a big enemy of morality. I don’t want our blunders in history to get repeated.
I am too conscious of being an American to accept public congratulation with good grace or to welcome it except as an occasion for expressing openly a shame which many Americans feel, day after day, helplessly and in silence.
If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you’ll be surprised what goes through your head.
Silence is more musical than any song.
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.
A rat race is for rats. We’re not rats. We’re human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.
I’ve had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody’s fault but mine.
I love a player who can go on the road and silence a crowd.
I can hear the roar of women’s silence.
The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
The unsaid is a powerful tool. It invites the reader into the narrative, filling in gaps, interpreting silences and half-finished sentences, and seeing the hidden fear in someone’s eye.
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what’s going on next week, next month.
Silence is my dignity.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
I used to be very scared of silence because I felt it was my responsibility to keep people occupied. That definitely spawns from an insecurity in myself. When people aren’t enjoying themselves, when I’m involved, it somehow comes back to it being my fault. But I do want people to have a good time.
We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion.
My idea of fun is to sit looking at a blank wall in a cottage, making up stories in utter silence. The thought of going back to work in an office is horrendous.
I don’t listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.
A role needs a certain tone, so your own tone also changes. It’s not like I lock myself up in a room to get into the zone. It is based on what I am feeling, because the minute you try too much, weird things happen. Of course, for an intense role you need some silence, and you need to do a lot of thinking.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
I’ve actually enjoyed pitching on the road in the postseason. You go out there, and you’re getting booed, and it’s fun to try to silence the crowd.
Your silence will not protect you.
Silence is the wit of fools.
Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry’s expressiveness.
I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
It’s a rule when you’re welcomed in the Marvel family that you have to understand that you’re going to be living in a code of silence.
In some causes silence is dangerous.
Silence on the part of public officials at the national level only serves to empower Islamophobes.
With a population of 1.4 billion, China is a lucrative market. But getting into that market isn’t cheap. At best, the price of doing business in China is silence; at worst, it’s reading talking points straight from the Chinese Communist Party. Beijing is not subtle about it.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn’t permanent and peace of mind can’t be bought.
Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue – there’s this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.
Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.
Theatre has had a very important role in changing South Africa. There was a time when all other channels of expression were closed that we were able to break the conspiracy of silence, to educate people inside South Africa and the outside world. We became the illegal newspaper.
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Silence is also conversation.
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Just three minutes a day of silence is a wonderful exercise to reset your ears and to recalibrate so that you can hear the quiet again. If you can’t get absolute silence, go for quiet; that’s absolutely fine.
I love to read, and I like the fact that there’s some silence in my life.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.
A lot of black men get in desperate situations because they don’t see any other avenues to make it. You make a couple of mistakes today, that’s all she wrote. You’re not going to get a good job; nobody’s gonna hire a felon. You can’t even vote. They just want to silence you.
With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them. However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past.
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz – a true rhapsody in blue – are hunted to the edge of silence.
She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky’s starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.
There hasn’t been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.
Big-Tech oligarchs, who silence liberty loving Patriots, have no place in the land of the free.
You see, ‘The Look of Silence’ is the first film ever made where survivors confront perpetrators who still hold a monopoly on power. It’s normally never done because it is too dangerous.
The Election Commission stopped me from campaigning. I accepted it and reached people through my prayer – in silence. People gave their approval. Praying in silence is important, and this spiritual prayer has paid off.
Conversations are an essential part of our daily lives. One cannot imagine life without talking or hearing. But somewhere between the hearing and saying part lies the beautiful silence.
When I get by the ocean, that’s the only moment that I get that silence and that connection, not with the ocean, but with myself.
I believe with a lot of support shows, people are very much there to see the headliner. You don’t necessarily have their full attention, and some of what we do requires a lot of silence.
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
Every time I criticize the anti-Zionists, they say, ‘You are trying to silence us.’ I don’t deny there are some people who are critical of Israel who are not anti-Semitic. But to criticize Israel, and then criticize Zionism, is not quite the same thing.
I’m a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it’s way more relaxing to have dead silence.
People are never quiet. It’s go, go, go. I’m a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.
Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.
People can say what they want. But you can silence a lot of people when you go out there and win.
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Great souls suffer in silence.
I’ve put everything in my rearview mirror and I’ve continued to silence people. That’s how I’m going to… continue to be happy living my life. And in the process, I silence haters.
I’ve always been the king of silence. I’ve always been a minimalist comedian. I’ve taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that… I’ve always done ‘less is more.’
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
I have to make sure that I don’t silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of ‘What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?’ For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I’m in the public eye.
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
One of the hardiest myths in British public life is that there is a conspiracy of silence on immigration. Liberals and leftists, it is alleged, have bandied together to prevent debate or discussion of ‘mass immigration’ into the U.K., caused by Labour’s ‘open door’ policies.
I like peace and solitude and silence.
I don’t listen to music when I write. I need silence.
I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she’s breaking her silence, my heart stops.
Speech is the small change of silence.
Sit with silence a lot – real silence, where nothing is happening – because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.
We believe… that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
I never authorized any payments for someone to be silent. I did not buy anyone’s silence.
Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
What’s beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.
Our shows are just like that. The screaming is constant, nonstop, and there’s not one minute of silence during the show. It’s pretty intense.
I’ve got a quiet voice. I think it’s because as a child I didn’t speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
There’s something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone – I just… I love that.
Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
With the exception of undertakers, athletes are the only professionals obliged to feign sorrow on a daily basis, pretending that every June baseball loss is a tragedy requiring library silence in the clubhouse.
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.
Some things we must pass over in silence.
I don’t like to read contemporary fiction while writing – I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don’t want a jumble of other people’s voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don’t create static in that silence.
I’m very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren’t talking on stage. I’m interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.
There’s a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I’ve broken our code of silence.
‘The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.
Introspection, or ‘sitting in the silence,’ is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us – inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences – must not be permitted to succeed.
I don’t listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
I think I should have made ‘Dead Silence’ as an independent movie.
People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
Because music is a language unto itself, when I’m writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the ‘withdrawal relationship’ that links him with his Father… To listen to the Father’s silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.
I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
My social media is riddled with me speaking out on stuff that matters because silence is a petri dish for hate. For me, it’s important to speak out.
I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It’s not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
Many women do not want to venture out into the ‘opinion world’ until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
I tried to leave the city once, for one of those other places. And, my God, the silence. I could hear myself think, and found that I wasn’t. I am not designed to be lonely as a cloud.
Mornings are the most crucial time of day for me. I like the silence.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
Planned Parenthood has consistently claimed to ‘care’ for women ‘no matter what’ and champion ‘women’s rights’ – yet they frantically silence any woman who thinks women deserve better than Planned Parenthood.
Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.
African women in general need to know that it’s OK for them to be the way they are – to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.
I’m not a ‘suffer in silence’ type; I’m a ‘let’s throw money at the problem’ type – I’ve done reflexology, reiki, psychotherapy, counselling. I’ve never actually had analysis, but I’d like to try that sometime.
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
I need complete silence when I write.
Certain songs like ‘Enjoy the Silence’ – to me, it always fits anywhere. There’s something about that song that’s really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up.
In silence – and in self-defense – I figured things out in my own little way.
In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant.
Every now and then, when you’re on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It’s a sound you can’t get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you’ve hit them where they live.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
Democrats know ‘racism’ doesn’t exist, but they use it to silence white conservatives and to instill fear in blacks and motivate them to vote.
The entertainment industry isn’t a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I’m not sure he knew what to do with himself!
For that reason you can’t write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you’re writing, and for that you need silence.
In conclusion, silence holds a profound place in our lives, offering solace, introspection, and wisdom. As we reflect on these quotes, may we embrace the power of stillness, recognizing the importance of moments of silence in our fast-paced world. Let us listen to the whispers of our hearts, find peace in the stillness, and cultivate a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
