Silence is the wellspring of all there is.
-Anne Mortifee

Silence contains everything within itself.
-Max Picard

All profound things, all emotions of things
are preceded and attended by silence.
-Herman Melville

We all have within us a center of stillness
surrounded by silence.
-Dag Hammarskjold

Only silence has good hearing.
-Vernon Howard

Is there enough silence, so I can hear?
-Rainer Maria Rilke

First the silence.
Then the voice of the silence.
-E. M. Standing

One must listen to the Silence,
even it nothing speaks
and nothing answers.
-Isha Schwaller de Lubicz

Silence is the only safe answer to Silence.
-Talbot Mundy

Silence is so accurate.

-Mark Rothko

Silence will come as an inner flowering.
-Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"

All the rest is silence
On the other side of the wall,
And the silence ripeness,
And the ripeness all.
-W. H. Auden

Come to Silence
like a hummingbird comes to the flower's nectar.
Know that there you will find life-giving substance.
-Ann Mortifee

Enter the silence as often as possible;
remain there for as long as possible.
-Robert S. De Ropp

Silence is for me a fount of healing.
-Carl Jung

All my days I grew up among sages,
and I have found nothing better for a person than silence.
-Pirke Aboth

True silence is the rest of the mind;
it is to the spirit what sleep is the body,
nourishment and refreshment.
-William Penn

Silence is like nightfall;
objects are lost in its insensibility.
-Anne Swetchine

Soothe your soul with silence.
-Ancient Sumerian Tablet

Silence stills the emotions.
-Ann Mortifee

Silence comes only when the body and mind
are in complete harmony without any friction.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

It (silence) comes when the mind
has completely understood itself -
therefore no movement at all takes place,
which means the brain cells themselves
have become quiet.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

Real silence means there is actually nowhere else
for the mind to go.
-Anandamayi Ma

Silence has now become
both a physical and spiritual necessity for me.
-Mohandas Gandhi

True silence is the one song worth singing.
-Strephon Kaplan-Williams

The silences hold the secrets.
And so the sweetest sound is the sound of silence.
This is the song of the soul.
-Neale Donald Walsche

Add only sweet song to the silence
-The Oculatum

Let your worship song be silence.
-Lalla Ded

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
-Francis Bacon

The temple of our purest thoughts
is silence.
-Sarah J. Hale

Find the silence
which contains thoughts.
-Hakuin

In silence alone
does a man's truth bind itself together
and strike root.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Silence is the element
in which great things fashion themselves.
-Thomas Carlyle

Sound arises from the silence.

Sound returns to the silence.

Silence is an eternal being,

sound a phenomenon.

No silence, no sound.

-Sang H. Kim

The center of all sound is silence.
All sounds rise from and lead back to silence.
-John Beaulieu

If you listen carefully,
you will hear the sound of silence
in all sound.
-Gwen Harrison

The meaning of silence
is sound dissolved
back into its original source.
-Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"

Only silence perfects silence.
-A. R. Ammons

Nothing at times
is more expressive than silence.
-George Eliot

Silence is unceasing eloquence.
-Ramana Maharshi

Silence is more musical than any song.
-Christina Rosetti

Silence has a music of its own.
It is very much alive, it is tremendously alive.
-Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"

Silences can be as different as sounds.
-Elizabeth Bowen

Silence often has the strongest voice.
-Edward Counsel

Silences may be as variously shaded as speech.
-Edith Wharton

Silence speaks volumes.
-Proverb

Silence is wisdom's best reply.
-Euripides

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
-Thomas Hardy

His silence is more eloquent than words.
-Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the mother of truth.
-Benjamin Disraeli

The only language able to express
the whole of truth is silence.
-Ramana Maharshi

If you love truth,
be a lover of silence.
-Isaac of Nineveh

Seek silence.
Gladden in silence.
Adore silence.
-Deng Ming-Dao

A seeker of silences am I.
-Kahlil Gibran

The more I listen,
the more profound the silence becomes.
-Wayne Dyer

One might say I had decided
to marry the silence of the forest.
-Thomas Merton

My weaving is now
in the infinite silence.
-Kabir

There is always an extraordinary silence...
One might hear the water sleeping.
-Maurice Maeterlinck

Enter into the stupendous ocean of Silence.
-Sivananda

Silence is the well
into which falls the universe.
-Isha Schwaller de Lubicz

Deep, deep is the supreme Silence.
-Sivananda

Silence has greatness simply because it is.
It is, and that is its greatness, its pure existence.
-Max Picard

There is nothing like silence
to suggest a sense of unlimited space.
Sound lends color to space,
and confers a sort of sound body upon it.
But absence of sound leaves it quite pure,
and in the silence, we are seized with the sensation
of something vast and boundless.
-Henri Bosco

Silence and spaciousness go together.
The immensity of silence is the immensity of the mind
in which a center does not exist.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

That which is holy,
that which is sacred, which is truth
can only be when there is complete silence.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

Silence is like a flame, you see?
-Marcel Marceau

When silence is present,
it is as though nothing but silence ever existed.
-Max Picard

There is nothing so much like God
in all the universe as silence.
-Meister Eckhart

Silence is the language of God,
all else is poor translation.
-Djalal Ad-Din Rumi

The best communication with God
is absolute, total silence;
there is not a single word in existence
that can convey this communication.
-Bernadette Roberts

Silence is the language of God,
it is also the language of the heart.
-Sivananda

Silence is the natural state of mind.
When you return to Silence within yourself,
it feels as if you have returned Home,
to your base, to your true self.
-Imre Vallyon

The Great Silence is Home
in the truest, deepest sense.
-Patricia Cota-Robles

Silence is always beautiful.
-Fydor Dostoyevsky