Quotes about Silence

There is no government so worthy as your son who fishes with you in silence beside the forest pool. There is no national glory so comely as your daughter whose hands have learned a music and go their own way on the keys.

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.

When we convene again to understand the world, the first speaker will again point silently out the window at the hillside in its season… and we will nod silently, and silently stand and go. Sabbaths 2000 II

He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was what made the folks so mad.

the listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it. Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.

Now that his physical voice was silent, the inner voice of reason, and other voices too, made themselves heard.

The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.