Free silence sayings, quotes and quotations
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
~sayings about silence by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
~inspirational sayings about Environment quotes by Jean Arp
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
~silence quotes by W.S. Merwin
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
~famous quotes about Speaking by Edgar Allan Poe
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
~silence sayings by Stephen Mallarme
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
~sayings about silence by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
~inspirational sayings about Attitude quotes by Kahlil Gibran
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
~silence quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
~famous quotes about Speaking by Martin Farquhar Tupper, Of Discretion, Proverbial Philosophy
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
~silence sayings by Jean Arp
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quite and calm.... One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
~sayings about silence by Andre Kostelanetz
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with a sort of greedy enjoyment, as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was saturated with the bouquet of silence.
~inspirational sayings about Books Reading quotes by Holbrook Jackson
the silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed
~silence quotes by Kahlil Gibran
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
~famous quotes about Solitude by William Penn
Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.
~silence sayings by Lawrence Duncan
That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.
~sayings about silence by Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, The Good Fight
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
~good sayings about Jobs by James Matthew Barrie
We must be our own before we can be another's.
~silence quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
~motivational quotes about Driving sayings by Mac McCleary
You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.
~silence sayings by William D. Ruckelshaus, former EPA administrator, New York Times, 30 November 1988
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
~sayings about silence by Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
~good sayings about Education by Erich Fromm
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
~silence quotes by Abraham Lincoln
We can put it in its proper perspective by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
~motivational quotes about Television sayings by Robert M. Hutchins, News Summaries, 31 December 1977
Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
~silence sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson
One today is worth two tomorrows.
~sayings about silence by Benjamin Franklin
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.
~good sayings about Love by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It's not what if, it's what now.
~silence quotes by Author Unknown
An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
~motivational quotes about Sisters sayings by Pam Brown
Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
~silence sayings by Walt Whitman
I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
~sayings about silence by Martin H. Fischer
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
~good sayings about Children by John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese
My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time.
~silence quotes by Karen Brown
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
~motivational quotes about Psychology sayings by Joey Adams
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams
~silence sayings by Tupac Shakur
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