Silence Quotes - Page 16

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen.

A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I’ve envisioned that woman’s silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.

Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

Great souls endure in silence.

To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.

When you believe God is who he says he is, when you hang onto him and his Word in faith, his truth sets you free.6 The truth you store up in silence comes back to you in the storm, and it lifts you away as on a life raft from the fears and disappointments that would otherwise pull you under. When you abide in his Word, he abides in you.

If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called a settlement. If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.