The noise hides the silence. It does not destroy the silence. (Le bruit cache le silence. – Il ne détruit le silence.)

Your silence will not protect you.

Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.

When the mind is silent, you can listen to your heart and remember that everything is Love and that you are that Love.

How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.

I always thought I was an extrovert until I became a theatre major. Then I realised I just didn’t like silence.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, ‘What is the sound of the waterfall?’ ‘Silence,’ he finally told me.

I know a lot about forming personal connections with people. Not from, you know, personal interaction or anything, but from reading about it alone, in silence.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.

Signs offer a way to speak, yet keep the room perfectly silent.

There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plushly carpeted funeral parlor which is far different from the bleak and...

Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be calm and pay close attention, for their wingbeats are barely...

sometimes, silence can be very loud

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn’t trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.

The voice of the Soul can be heard within the silence of the unaffected mind. Listen.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

Mum was pregnant, then there was Sharron. […]I wanted to keep him away from her – but for the wrong reasons. In my head he was mine, he was my special person but, of course,...

Ránk telepedett a csönd, az a fajta jótét hallgatás, amely időről időre megszakítja idegenek hétköznapi beszélgetését, és lehetővè teszi, hogy baj nélkül visszatérjenek életük ismerős keretei közé.

You would do well to guard your tongue, lest it be stricken from you.

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

The silence leans forward.

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow – hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.

I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner source of love and truth – the inner language of silence.Now I also...

It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back

In silence you shall face self…and have respect.

This… this…”; the musical silence that accompanies absorbed activity; the silence of listening to another speak, catching the drift and helping him be clear; the noisy silence of resentment and self-recrimination, loud and subvocal speech...

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you’re in a forest and everything’s really quiet, except there’s still this sound you can’t hear.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn’t either.

In this landI have made myself sick with silenceIn this landI have wandered, lostIn this landI hunkered down to seeWhat will become of me.In this landI held myself tightSo as not to scream.-But I did...

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.

But the night doesn’t swallow her up.Everywhere she goes she is still there;the silence is as big as herself.

There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.

Welcome home, m’love.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

The silence after the movie just says everything. I wasn’t expecting [the ending] to be that powerful.

Any day above ground is a good one. A woman’s beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye...

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence...

I miss the snow. I miss looking at it, walking in it, tasting it. I used to love those days when it was so cold everyone else would be tucked away inside trying to stay...

A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much.

Word of mouth is often louder than word of hand, although applause can be deafening. I clap like Helen Keller drank coffee—with two spoonfuls of silence.

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road...

In silence – and in self-defense – I figured things out in my own little way.