Silence Quotes - Page 81

we perceive silence where, in fact, there is a muffler.

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?

The sound of life has divine silence.

Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

Silence never makes any blunders.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself.

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.

My mom told me that I should trust the man who could see the sorrow behind my smile, the love behind my anger, and the reasons behind my silence.

So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.

I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.

Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.

Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence.

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.

I came to the table, pulled up a chair, and sat. “Everyone brought a pet. I feel left out.” An enthusiastic howl broke the silence, and Grendel bounded through the doorway. He galloped through the steak house, skidded on the floor, smashed into my chair, and dropped a dead rat on my lap. Awesome.

Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.