Silence Quotes - Page 94

However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul.

Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise!

Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought.

Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!

Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!

As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

There is always a melancholic silence before entering every New Year!

Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too.

Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!

When you walk, try to think nothing! You can then obtain the silence of a streetlight or a bridge; stop thinking; after that, you become all you see!

Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water," the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had filled for him.

Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're heading for Awkward Avenue.

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.

Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

The truth will lead me to all.

When I'm there, it's pure silence. There are other writers there, too, and I get super competitive. I have this weird fear that some guy next to me is writing this amazing novel, so I got to compete.

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

silence is the most intolerable of answers.

The tranquility of my room partakes too much of Forest Lawn.

I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.

After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.