Silence Quotes - Page 17

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.

I have often repented of having spoken. I have never repented of silence.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.

Silence, beautiful voice.

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Silence does good to the soul.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive.

Inside the silence is a melody.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

Freediving is about silence...the silence that comes from within.

To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.

Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.