Silence Quotes - Page 25

Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence. The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize. Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something created for its own sake.

This country of ours was built on violence; If your ass got in the way, you was killed in silence. And these been the ways since back in the days: Just ask the Indians or the African slaves.

Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.

to hear the voice of the silence is to understand that from within comes the only true guidance

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.

My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God's providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence.

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?

I have an appetite for silence.

Even five minutes spent in silence will nurture and revive your soul and spirit.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.

Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.

Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language.

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

There's nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may discover that in silence, complete understanding is already there.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.