Silence Quotes
We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.
The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.
Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie."
Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.
A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.
In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.
Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.
Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.
So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.
We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.
The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.
The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
