Silence Quotes - Page 86

We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence.

Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.

At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.

Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience to touch your music and to hear it and hear it in the room with you and to say, you can't have an entire orchestra there, but you'd kind of like to have the orchestra there.

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

Thought will not work except in silence.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

There are different qualities of silence. There's the silence that sustains us, as women, that nourishes us, the silence where I believe our true voice, our authentic voice, dwells. But there's also the silence that censors us, that tells us what we have to say does not want to be heard, should not be heard, has no value. And that if we speak, it will be at our own peril. This kind of silence is deadly. This kind of silence is deadening to who we are as women. And when a woman is silenced, the world is silenced. When a woman speaks, there is an opening.

I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!

You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.” “Another world is colliding with this one,” said the toad. “There. Happy now? That’s what Miss Tick thinks. But it’s happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back.” “Why?” “There’s no one to stop them.” There was silence for a moment. “There’s me,” said Tiffany.

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.

We can't leave the internet to the bullies. You deserve to speak out and be heard just as much as the next man. Don't let bullies silence you. Support others, and make sure you look after yourself.

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.

I press my ear against his chest, to the spot where I always rest my head, where I know I will hear the strong and steady beat of his heart. Instead, I find silence.