Silence Quotes - Page 60

Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds other ways to tell her, his fingers leaving faint trails of ink in their wake. He savors every sound he elicits from her. The entire room trembles as they come together. And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

There's a degree of deception in silence.

Go into seclusion and rest your mind on the silence.

We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv e mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.

See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is a God.Then you can begin to practice Sabbath and that will enable you to re-enter community.You can't have community without Sabbath.

I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

I like peace and solitude and silence.