Quotes about Silence
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
- Henri Nouwen
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
- Ambrose of Milan
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
- Ellen Glasgow
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
- Phillips Brooks
To restore silence is the role of objects.
- Samuel Beckett
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
- Samuel Beckett
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground.
- Samuel Johnson
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
- Samuel Johnson
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.
- Samuel Johnson
Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
- Marilyn Monroe
Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.
- Mark Buchanan