Silence Quotes - Page 39

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.

As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation.

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

How I wish that all men and women of good will would look to the Cross if only for a moment! There, we can see God’s reply: violence is not answered with violence, death is not answered with the language of death. In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue, and peace is spoken.

Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]

[Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.

In every moment of every day, through a thousand individual manifestations of Itself, is Divinity revealing Itself. Yet we do not see. Or we see, but do not believe. We do not believe the evidence of our own eyes. We do not hear the truth in the sounds of silence.

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

I love everything about what we [Suicide Silence] do, and our life style. It's an insane way to live when you spend most of your time inside a plane, tour bus, or in a back stage. All over this massive place we call earth.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.

It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and the extreme left, searched their consciences, mustered their moral and physical courage, shed their intimidated silence, and declare their consciences.

There will be a moment of silence while our prints do the talking.

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.