Silence Quotes - Page 34

I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

When silence reaches an ultimate point, the light penetrates everywhere.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the oppressed but otherwise, when it comes to national civic identity, mainly silence.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

In the silences I make in the midst of the turmoil of life I have appointments with God. From these silences I come forth with spirit refreshed, and with a renewed sense of power. I hear a voice in the silences, and become increasingly aware that it is the voice of God.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.

Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.