Quotes about Silence

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

His eyes fixed on mine for an instant, then he turned back to the fire.

She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.

When they were done, the stones lay heaped upon the still form. The crowd dispersed like crows flying from empty bones. The elders picked up their robes and walked away. The mob was now silent. No one met the gaze of his neighbor. They drifted away, until only Ezra stood at one side, Saul on the other.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

Emptiness where you wouldn't expect it speaks to you.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Eyes can't speak ...but some people can understand what eyes want to speak!!!

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it.

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.