Silence Quotes - Page 70

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Of all the sounds that touch my soul these days, the most beautiful one of all is silence.

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.

The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.

Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.