Silence Quotes
I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.
Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.
Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe.
It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.
Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them.
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.
Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.
You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.
Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.
If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
Restrain yourself... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain.
I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him.
It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.
If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.
It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.
So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.
Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.
There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.
