Silence Quotes
Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.
…he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.
When words have vanished, when daily habits have extinguished emotional exchange, only killing silence remains and indifference takes over. ( "Words had disappeared" )
Today words curve around my vision, Stumbling from my parched coreTo soak again those strands of silence.
I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken.
To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence.
Crash studied her. Sometimes he seemed to understand her silence better than her words.
And so we must dig in to see where raw words and fundamental sounds are buried so that the great silence within can finally be decoded.
There are words, which should leave unspoken, and the true value of a man lies in the words the he has for not saying.
God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.
When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.
So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.
...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...
I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression.
In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.
A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.
I did pray. I kept on Praying. But prayer did nothing to alleviate their suffering.
Where were you when I undressed and told the tales of my day?Where were youwhenI was silent with God in prandial pray?Where were youwhen I recited love poems as I lay?Where were you?
There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.
Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.
Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.
He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,
I have always been on speaking terms with God, especially now. God and I just had a few weeks of silence. 'Tis over now.
It is in descending in the humble silence of prayer that we are able to ascend to the greatest heights of true human fulfillment in union with God.
I listen to the silenceand yearn to be more me, swimming in the sea of myself, learning eternally -finding out where the rocks areand smoothing them into sand.
Silence your mind and breathe. Take this moment to show gratitude for the abundance of blessings in your life.
I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.
Even in solitude, silence stays, like a loyal supporter, with its unbroken presence.
Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.
You will only find the profoundly inexpressible in profound silence.
The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of "I" is false.
Silence is the invisible door to God. Silence is the inner door to become one with God.
A painter is someone who wipes the windowpane between the world and us with light, with a rag made of light, soaked in silence.