Silence Quotes - Page 3

I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity.

If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

When you can bear your own silence, you are free.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.

When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

To choose to write is to reject silence.