Quotes about Silence

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.

God uses silence to teach us to use words responsibly. He uses tiredness so that we can understand the value of waking up. He uses illness to underline the blessing of good health. God uses fire to teach us about water. He uses earth to explain the value of air. He uses death to show us the importance of life.

I'm just like that woman really. Or rather, that's what I used to be like: someone pretending to know everything, hidden away in my own silence

He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it's silence held the answers to his questions.

in the blank spaces between the letters. In the moment when a note of music ends and the next one has not yet begun (Coelho/Nabil Alaihi, age unknown, Bedouin 2007:99).

So, we, their hearts, speak more and more softly. We never stop speaking out, but we begin to hope that our words won't be heard: we don't want people to suffer because they don't follow their hearts.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

That's my attitude on the military. I don't like telling the enemy what I'm doing.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

How can you talk if you don't say anything? I said. You talk without words. We are always talking without words. Well, what good are words, then? Not very good, most of the time. Most of the time they're only good to keep back what you really want to say, or something you don't want known.