Silence Quotes - Page 91

Silence is a place of great power and healing.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason?

The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love.

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the whole time, and so on. This was an interesting experience, which has had some beneficial effects for me.

This new condition, this unwilled silence, had fallen over him ten days ago. The day Cass had gone into the hospital. The day she had fallen into a coma.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.

Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize. Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources – it’s a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence

In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in silence. When you could remember. When the evidence that had gathered could be sorted. And it was a difficulty if another person imagined these moments were their property. Your life got sliced from two sides like a supermarket salami until there was nothing left in the middle. You were the bits that had been given away right and left to others. Because they wanted the piece of you that belonged to them. Because they wanted more. Because they wanted passion. And you did not have it.

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

I feel like there are too many words in the world, and I think silence is so much more powerful than the glut of words.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

Sometimes silence is the most effective tool to make impact, and sometimes loud and big is the trick.

....If you are guided toward a faith, use it as a stepping stone to God, not as a barrier between yourself and God's other children or as a tower to hold you aloft from others. If you are not guided toward a faith (or even if you are) seek God in the silence - seek within.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence

There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.