Quotes about Silence
The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines.
- DH Lawrence
Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; Speech is human, Silence is divine.
- Dale Carnegie
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
- Walt Whitman
I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sounds contribute towards me.
- Walt Whitman
while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself. Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean, Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
- Walt Whitman
I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, / And accrue what I hear into myself....and let sounds contribute / toward me.
- Walt Whitman
You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
- Wendell Berry
By then I wasn't just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my prayers, which dwindled down nearer and nearer to silence, which weren't confrontations with God but with the difficulty--in my own mind, or in the human lot--of knowing what or how to pray. Lying awake at night, I could feel myself being changed--into what, I had no idea.
- Wendell Berry
Most people enter a library and don't hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations occurring all at once. Each ushering an invitation. The noise is raucous.
- Charles Martin
We stood in silence, and yet I heard a familiar voice saying, Listen here, child, that's God's little girl, baggage and all, so don't go judging the cover. He doesn't care what she looks like. He'll take her and us any way he can get us. Just like the woman at the well. Best you switch lenses and start seeing her that way too.
- Charles Martin
It was often what Charlie didn't say that spoke the loudest.
- Charles Martin
That which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence."
- Charles Martin