In our lives we need silence and solitude.
We must learn to enjoy a quiet time with our own company.
And here is the eternal tune which celebrates the beauty of Silence.
Here are 20 Quotes i have chosen which reminds us how lovely the moments of Silence are..
“Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.”
Susan Cain
“Listen to silence. It has so much to say.”
Rumi
“The quiet mind is richer than a crown.”
Robert Greene
“The ocean, the desert, and the jungle are the last strongholds and resorts of peace.”
P.C. Wren
“I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.”
Annie Besant
“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Within each of us, there is silence. A silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.”
Gunilla Norris
“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Aldous Huxley
“Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.”
Anthony de Mello
“I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“There is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.”
Thomas Merton
“We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.”
Jefferson Bethke
“There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.”
Mark Lawrence
“Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.”
Buddha
“If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.”
Pythagoras
“One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.”
Virginia Woolf
“Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.”
Julius Lester
“Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.”
Thomas Merton
Friends, this is what i felt would be a suitable collection of quotes on Silence.
If you are having your own favorite quote on Silence then feel free to share with us in the “Comments” section below.
Let’s see how many different quotes on Silence are there !
