Silence Quotes

“There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”

“A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.”

“The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.”

“Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.”

“Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.”

“Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.”

“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.”

“Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.”

“All is known in the sacredness of silence.”

“Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness”

“No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.”

“It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”

“This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.”

“I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.”

“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”

“Silence is the perfect herald of joy.”

“The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?”

“Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”

“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.”

“'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.”

“Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.”

“Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.”

“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.”

“Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.”

“Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.”