Silence Quotes - Page 75

There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable.

If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings forth a whole platton of helpers, and how often our speaking forth soon creates a chorus - we would be even more ashamed of our slackess and our silence.

So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others.

You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy.

Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.

The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

God will of necessity always be a hidden God. His loudest cry is silence. If he does not manifest himself to us, we will say that he hides himself. And if he manifests himself, we will accuse him of veiling himself. Ah! it is not easy for God to make himself known to us!

What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are you going to be here now. Because everything is available for you in the here and now. Love, compassion, silence, bliss and Oneness.

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.

The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.

The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.