Silence Quotes - Page 47

Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

When you are exposed to others' negativity, you do not need to respond. You can choose to put your attention elsewhere and let their words be a tiny drop in the infinite ocean of your peaceful silence.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or cicadas. Something was out there. An intruder of which the ordinary forest creatures clearly did not approve. He took a deep breath and held it again, straining to hear the slightest movement in the woods. This time he detected the rustle of brush, a snapping twig, the soft crunch of dry leaves-and the unnervingly peculiar, heavy, ragged breathing of something big.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

You don't have to explain something you never said.

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best.

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence comfort me.

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.

Talkers are no good doers.

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.