Silence Is Quotes (page 8)

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• silence
• some
• danger

In some causes silence is dangerous. Saint Ambrose

• silence
• kindness
• consider

Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps. Samuel Beckett

• life
• death
• silence

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. Isabel Allende

• god
• silence
• evil

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• silence
• actual
• something

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear. Haruki Murakami

• week
• sunday
• black

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum. Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead. Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crpe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now: put out... W. H. Auden

• silence
• acceptance
• refuses

Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept. Warren Bennis

• wonder
• contentment
• world

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content. Anne Sullivan Macy

• powerful
• impressive
• power

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. Thomas Hardy

• inspiration
• inspirational
• moon

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar? Khalil Gibran

• silence
• saying
• difficult

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. Samuel Johnson

• silence
• wisdom
• season

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. Plutarch

• friend
• friends
• real

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck

• words
• him
• god

Let him tell them the truth. Before the Gospel is a word, it is silence. It is the silence of their own lives and of his life. It is life with the sound turned off so that for a moment or two you can experience it not in terms of the words you make it bearable by but for the unutterable mystery that it is. Let him say, "Be silent and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10). Be silent and know that even by my silence and absence I am known. Be silent and listen to the stones cry out. Out of the... Frederick Buechner

• moments
• running
• everyday

Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence.' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that... Vincent Price