Quotessence
Home / Topics / Silence Quotes

Silence Quotes

Browse 6767 quotes about Silence.

Related topics

Silence IsIfsSilentKnowsPeopleWorldMenSpeakThinkingSoundQuietMindHeartNeedsWayVoiceNoiseMomentsSpeechSaidGivingStillsListeningFeelsLanguageLongSoulMeditationNightMayDoeSolitudeWantShouldLittlesSometimesEyeWritingSpaceHas BeensTwoTryingPersonsKindFirstsLyingPrayerYearsHeardHumansWellsI CanMeanLightStillnessSecretMadeLifeImportantArtInspirationalTalkingWholeSelfAnswersEndsLastsChildrenEnoughHandsMightRealSleepTongueEarsLooksBelieveBreakDarkHearingIdeasStoriesDreamEarthMusicSeemsSufferingActionAsksBodyConversationDiesSilence Is GoldenWiseFeelingsSpiritualWould BeFacesMatterTogethermore

Silence Quotes

“God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.”

MenWantNeedsShouldMaySoulFormHumanityTurnsLostHeavenChurchSilenceFeetSharePrideUniversalLaysCriticsFolksGlassesSavedOnenessPriestsGrantsFarmersBellsCreedsLowestRagsQuaker
Book:Among the Hills, and Other Poems
Create image

“The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs to avoid, at all costs, the voice inside her head that would point her toward her calling and her destiny. So she seeks distraction. The amateur prizes shallowness and shuns depth. The culture of Twitter and Facebook is paradise for the amateur.”

NeedsLongTwoMotivationalCultureVoiceSilenceDestinyCallingCostSolitudeDepthListsParadisePrizeDistractionSilence IsShallownessTwitter And Facebook
Author:Steven Pressfield
Create image

“I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people not - just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.”

PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsTryingKindTermSilenceMy FriendsToleranceMessNew YorkersTrying To ChangeSmall TalkThinking Deeply
Author:Jacqueline Woodson
Create image

“Eternal God, lead me now out of the familiar setting of my doubts and fears, beyond my pride and my need to be secure into a strange and graceful ease with my true proportions and with yours; that in boundless silence I may grow strong enough to endure and flexible enough to share your grace.”

NeedsMayEnoughStrongGrowsSilenceDoubtGraceShareStrangePrideEternalEndureSettingFamiliarSettingsSecureEaseProportionFlexibleStrong EnoughBoundlessLeading MeDoubt And Fear
Book:Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle
Create image

“I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?”

KnowsNeedsLooksDoeImportantOrderAsksImaginationRoomsSilenceStudentsMusic IsIdealsImportant ThingsChaosReleaseSerenitySilence IsMy Imagination
Author:Toni Morrison
Create image

“Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion. But this experiment is very dangerous. Those who recommend it are confident that so long as resentment is groundless one need only suffer it in silence and all will soon be well. I have observed however that this is by no means the case.”

NeedsMindWellsMeanLongSufferingSilenceCasesDangerousExperimentsDevotionJealousyBelovedResentmentSuspicionRevive
Book:Tale of Genji
Create image

“The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.”

WayNeedsFeelsHeartArtDifferentArtistSilenceCreativityExpressionQuietAmbitionWorkersCreatorCreditObserversQuiet Heart
Book:Passionate Presence
Create image

“We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.”

NeedsMayChildrenRememberAsksVoiceSilenceTeachConditionsSolitudeOur ChildrenAcceptablePositivelyVoice Of God
Author:Maya Angelou
Create image

“The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode”

ThinkingKnowsWorldNeedsMindI CanIdeasRealWaterMy OwnSleepWhiteSilenceTalkingImagineRiversCrushStillnessLockedCollapseShut UpCravingVowJunkieLocked UpChurningWhite WaterVow Of Silence
Author:Andrew Schneider
Create image

“I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.”

NeedsBigsCultureStuffSpaceCitiesSilenceMiddleListeningGrewGrew UpHorseContemporaryGrassMexicoRidingBugsBig CitiesOpen SpacesNew MexicoBombardedMiddle Of Nowhere
Author:Tom Ford
Create image

“We're all in this together. It's okay to be honest. It's okay to ask for help. It's okay to say you're stuck, or that you're haunted or that you can't begin to let go. We can all relate to those things. Screw the stigma that says otherwise. Break the silence and break the cycle, for you are more than just your pain. You are not alone. And people need other people.”

PeopleNeedsHelpingPainTogetherAsksSilenceBreakHonestLetting GoOkayStuckRelateBeing HonestCyclesScrewsNot AloneStigma
Book:If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For
Create image

“Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest until they have tried as hard as they can to write the stories. They cannot rest because they are human, and all of us need to speak into the silence of mortality, to interrupt and ever so briefly stop that quiet flow, and with stories try to understand at least some of it.”

NeedsWritingTryingHumansHardDoneStoriesSpeakHuman BeingsSilenceQuietFlowMortalityShort StoryStory Writers
Book:Broken Vessels: Essays
Create image

“There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.”

MenNeedsKindMayChildrenHas BeensLastsUsedCertainLeftSpeakVoicePleasureSilenceQualityLaughingObjectsKeysCircumstancesGayEssenceNotesMoodDustPianoChairsMelancholyEchoesLifelessEmanate
Book:West with the Night
Create image

“In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time. Sometimes the student who is least articulate about expressing the ideas is in fact the one who is absorbing and processing them most deeply. This applies as well to our own private learning of our art form; the areas in which we feel most stuck and most incompetent may be our richest gold mine of developing material. The use of silence in teaching then becomes very powerful.”

NeedsFeelsWellsMayArtIdeasSometimesFactsUseFormPowerfulSilenceTeachingStudentsMinesMaterialsPeriodsAreasGoldInsightStuckDevelopingCooksVery PowerfulIncompetentAbsorbingProcessing
Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch
Create image

“Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her brought deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling waves in the magic of the summer clouds and glorious sunshine;-no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.”

NeedsLooksCountryBeautifulNaturalSilenceMagicSkySolitudeMountainOceanSummerRiversCloudsWaveForestsGloriousLakesSilverSunshineValleysRollingSpontaneousSublimeSolemnLiquidBoundlessSceneryFertilityMagnificenceVegetationKindlingNatural Scenery
Author:Washington Irving
Create image

“For those of you who are seeing the spiritual life, I recommend these four daily practices: Spend time alone each day in receptive silence. When angry, or afflicted with any negative emotion, take time to be alone with God. (Do not talk with people who are angry; they are irrational and cannot be reasoned with. If you or they are angry, it is best to leave and pray.) Visualize God's light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Exercise the body, it is the temple of the soul.”

PeopleIfsNeedsSoulHelpingBodyLightSpiritualEmotionSilencePracticeFourSeeingPrayingExerciseNegativeAngryEach DayTemplesSpiritual LifeTake TimeIrrationalEnd TimesSpend TimeMe AloneReceptiveAlone TimeNegative EmotionsAlone With God
Author:Peace Pilgrim
Create image

“I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.”

IfsNeedsWritingReasonUseHappensUsedHeavenHoursSilenceSupportHellAliveImpossibleHugeDrinkCreaturesEmptyLettersThrownBalancedGlancesTemperamentImposingRainyRainy DayInexorable
Author:May Sarton
Create image

“Too many Americans who struggle with mental health illnesses are suffering in silence rather than seeking help, and we need to see to it that men and women who would never hesitate to go see a doctor if they had a broken arm or came down with the flu, that they have that same attitude when it comes to their mental health.”

IfsMenNeedsHelpingSufferingSilenceAttitudeStruggleBrokenArmsMen And WomenDoctorsMental HealthIllnessSeekingFluSeeking Help
Author:Barack Obama
Create image

“My sister is also retarded. Across the board. She's a one hundred per cent, honest to goodness, born that way retard. I learned a long time ago that if you're going to tell a story about your retarded sister, you need to mention she's retarded right off the bat or inevitably, at the end of the story, someone will say, What... is she, retarded? And then you have to go, Uh... yeah, she is. Followed by a lengthy, awkward silence.”

IfsWayNeedsLongEndsStoriesBornSilenceHonestGoodnessLong TimeHundredYeahBoardsMy SisterCentsAwkwardBatsLong Time AgoRetardedRetardLengthy
Author:Bonnie McFarlane
Create image