Top Silence Quotes

Silence. A summer-night silence which lay for a thousand miles, which covered the earth like a white and shadowy sea.

The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed

Silence Definition

(n.) The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.

(n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.

(n.) Secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence.

(n.) The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.

(n.) Absence of mention; oblivion.

(interj.) Be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.

(v. t.) To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.

(v. t.) To put to rest; to quiet.

(v. t.) To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.

(v. t.) To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.

There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard...

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Silence is the mother of truth.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.

The deeper magic always comes, in the intense sorcery of your inner silence.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

When you are able to understand the language of silence, you will be able to see the beauty of the invisible.

It is in descending in the humble silence of prayer that we are able to ascend to the greatest heights of true human fulfillment in union with God.

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You remain so silent,as carried away,through mist of your thoughts,so dark and so deep,and even awake same as when asleep,waiting for enlightenment of a newborn day.I'm bound to your silence,to the co...

Silence is a source of great strength.

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

May my silences become more accurate.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not rav...

A day of silence can be a pilgrimage in itself.

Time will tell...Time will answer...Silence... and time....