Silence Quotes - Page 63

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.

Their silence is enough praise.

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.