Silence Quotes - Page 40

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?

To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died in silence, with no grudge, setting their teeth to bear it. All for the country!

Silence in times of suffering is the best.

Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?

If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.

Our silence is deafening and deadly.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

Speech is the small change of silence.

In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.

The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

Silences can be as different as sounds.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.