Quotes about Silence
I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.
- Celine Dion
...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.
- Paulo Coelho
Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people. And where no one asks, no one needs to answer.
- Carl Jung
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
- Thomas Merton
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
- Pope John Paul II
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
- GK Chesterton
...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry
- Wendell Berry
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma.
- Desmond Tutu
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
- Victor Hugo