Silence Quotes - Page 23

Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it.

You can't improve on saying nothing.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.

Skies are crying, I am watching, Catching teardrops in my hands. Only silence, as it's ending, Like we never had a chance. Do you have to make me feel Like there's nothing left of me?

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.

The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me.

In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.

It's in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.