Silence Quotes - Page 103

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

Freedom is the silence of the law.

What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

Talk is only silence that ain't workin' well.

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?

When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.

The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.

As the kundalini energy increases, as the energy of the psyche becomes more pronounced, which it does as thought becomes eclipsed by silence, all the variant mind states burn away.

You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.

Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small as a grain of rice. It twists in your gut like a worm. Silence clawed at my throat. It left a taste of burnt matches.