Silence Quotes - Page 32

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

Never say anything unless you have to.

The landscapist lives in silence.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

I'm speaking to someone I'm trying to get to fall in love with me. I'm trying to speak intimately to one person. That should be clear. I'm not speaking to an audience. I'm not writing for the podium. I'm just writing, trying to write in a fairly quiet tone to one other reader who is by herself, or himself, and I'm trying to interrupt some silence in their life, which is utterance.

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.