Silence Quotes

This new condition, this unwilled silence, had fallen over him ten days ago. The day Cass had gone into the hospital. The day she had fallen into a coma.

There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.

Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love.

In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason?

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.

Only silence communicates the truth as it is.

Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being

Worship the Silent Space in you.

Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.

'What is celebration?' Rather than dancing, rather than laughing, rather than loving, rather than enjoying this silence, the mind asks: 'What is celebration?'

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is also true: silence cannot exist without creativity.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.

If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?

Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station.

Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence?

Silence 'tis awe decrees.

It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.

Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.

It is from that region of silence, that wordless knowing comes.

I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.

Don't fear conflict, fear the silence.

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

I take out little moments of silence before or after they sing, because I just love those weird pauses.

I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride.

When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives.

In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.

It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.

Don't you know yet that men are full of words that mean nothing? The silence of a woman is a thousand times weightier. You must learn to trust silence. To load it with truth, and to wait.

Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to sit over here with my throbbing feet and bleed in silence until we get to our destination. (Syn)

I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.