Silence Quotes - Page 14

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

You are primal awareness. Life is only primal awareness. Between two thoughts or two perceptions you are. You know moments in your life when a thought completely disappears into silence, but still you are.

And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.

True silence is really endless speech.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God's silence has been the sign of the answer.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.

Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

Silence is also conversation.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination!

When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.

The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me.

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.