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Quotes about Silence

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
- William Saroyan
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.
- William Saroyan
When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.
- Winston Churchill
No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.
- Herman Melville
Underneath all the texts, all the sacred psalms and canticles, these watery varieties of sounds and silences, terrifying, mysterious, whirling and sometimes gestating and gentle must somehow be felt in the pulse, ebb, and flow of the music that sings in me. My new song must float like a feather on the breath of God.
- Hildegard of Bingen
By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.
- Henepola Gunaratana
If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.
- Thomas Merton
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
- Victor Hugo
Turn your car into a monastery.
- Robert Barron
Never miss a chance to shut up.
- Will Rogers
Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.
- Peter Kreeft
We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us.
- Peter Kreeft