Quotes about silence

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“the beautiful are found in the edge of a room
crumpled into spiders and needles and silence
and we can never understand why they
left, they were so
beautiful.

they dont make it,
the beautiful die young
and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.”

“Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets,. Hear it? It's a love song.

For whom?

You are loved.”

“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”

“It is a waste, for silence is pure.
Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are
comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great
paradox.”

“Sitting over words
Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing
Not far
Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark
The echo of everything that has ever
Been spoken
Still spinning its one syllable
Between the earth and silence”

“Silence creates its own violence.”

“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”

“The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.”

“Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied sould of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech. In the same way to say a little is often to tell more than to say.”

“The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.”

“Silence is more eloquent than words.”

“To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.”

“To give up our imaginary position as the center, to renounce it, not only intellectually but in the imaginative part of our soul, that means to awaken to what is real and eternal, to see the true light and hear the true silence.”

“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”

“Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.”

“I think they have compatible silences.”

“So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?”

“My love, I fear the silence of your hands.”

“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”

“Study is the child of silence and mystery.”

“Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.”

“We fell into silence, both of us keeping our own secrets of what we'd suffered in the other's absence. I wondered if we were trying to protect each other or simply didn't want to admit to our own fears and weaknesses.”

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

“my hands dead
my heart dead
silence
adagio of rocks
the world ablaze
that's the best
for me.”

“The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.”

“Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.”

“There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.”

“My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn”

“In these silences, something may rise”

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

“Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.”

“Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,
she slowly closed out of sight,
and she was the woman I loved,
but too many times she slept like
a mechanical deer in my caresses,
and I ached in the metal silence
of her dreams.”

“I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.”

“Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence… Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.”

“Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.”

“He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.”

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.”

“… the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.”

“The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end.”

“Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
… On the other hand, he SAID it.”

“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”

“It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.”

“But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.”

“most people are perfectly afraid of silence”

“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”

“However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”

“I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.”

“He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard […]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.”

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.”

“If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.”

“As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”

“The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a father at all.”

“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.”

“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.”

“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

“silence is not weakness and decency is not pride”

“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.”

“He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal faces.'
There was an uncomfortable silence.
'That sounds… extreme,' Jason ventured.”

“All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.”

“Your silence is not acceptable.”

“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”

“Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn’t.”

“Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.”

“If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner… if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.”

“We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech”

“In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.”

“Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“Whose silence are you?”

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind”

“The brief silence that follows is as tender as a
rainstorm of daisies.”

“I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.”

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

“You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and dimension all its own.”

“The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.”

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

“He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears.”

“Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”

“Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.”

“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”

“Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”

“See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.”

“Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!”

“Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.”

“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.”

“A nervous silence loosens tongues”

“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”

“Now that the real and the imagined had collided, he wondered if she, like he, longed for the past, for the normal. He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.”

“Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.”

“A poem by Margot Bickel

A little peace
within the last hours of the almost bygone day
a little silence
between the days
so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past
and tomorrow is lived for today”

“Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.”

“There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terribly ghastly silence.”

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.”

“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.”

“If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.”

“Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.”

“Even the silence
has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen.”