Silence Quotes - Page 10

Silence heals nothing, fixes nothing, and unlocks nothing. Just because you don’t say something doesn’t make it any less true.

Mary Calmes

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon

I keep thinkingThat poetry is something else:A form of love that exists only in silence,In a secret place between two people,Almost always between two strangers

José Emilio Pacheco

I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person.

Shannon Hale

And remember, silence is all it takes to validate evil and remember, indifference is all it takes to endorse it.

Adeosun Olamide

In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.

J.M. Coetzee

That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don’t happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered.

Paul Auster

Ultimately, our questions must emerge not from mental categories, but from deep within the heart. They must rise to the surface of our beings as we sit in silence, so that they are not just the old questions which we raise whenever we have nothing else to talk about or just for the sake of argument. They need to be the questions which make a difference in our lives.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Never underestimate the effect of well-timed silence.

Bruce Rhoades

Best of the conversations are sometimes made in silence..

Danya Krish

The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.

Stephen D. Krashen

I defendNot my voice, but my silence

Anna Akhmatova

He grinned back at me, and I remembered how normal he’d made me feel the first time we’d met. Here, once again, he wasn’t bothered by my silence. And I suddenly realized what made me feel so uncomfortable about Elizabeth’s exploits. The people she attracted were drawn to the same thing everyone else was: our glowing skin, dreamy eyes, and air of secrecy. But this boy? He seemed to see more than that. He saw me not just as a mysterious beauty, but as a girl he wanted to know.He didn’t stare at me. He spoke to me.

Kiera Cass

It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.

Osho

Sometimes, there's no one around to tell you to be quiet... to be very, very quiet. Sometimes you need to be quiet when you're all alone.

Jay Asher

The Silence of the Final GoodbyeI knew you best from the silences,The time and space in between,The moment before our lips touched,The way your arms went up in the air before you laughed,The smile that we shared before we talked,The redness on your face before your tears,The sensation of your arms around me after you released the embrace.The look you gave me before you walked away,Nothing had ever been so painful,No words could say what your eyes told me,When I wake in the morning without you,It’s the first thing I hear…The silence of the final goodbye.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

It's been said that actions speak louder than words. Sometimes, it's what you don't say or do, that sends the loudest message.

Carlos Wallace

If I didn’t look too closely, I wouldn’t see that Tiras wasn’t there. If I didn’t breathe too deeply, I wouldn’t feel the hollow echo in my empty chest. If I didn’t move too quickly, I wouldn’t reach any painful conclusions. And if I didn’t listen, I wouldn’t hear the silence he always left behind.

Amy Harmon

that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.

Okey Ndibe

Silence is the small man’s only defense.

Karan Mahajan

And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story...

Deyth Banger

People should think of their words like seeds. They should plant them, then let them grow in silence. Our old people taught us that the earth is always speaking to us, but that we have to be silent to hear her.

Kent Nerburn

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent

Thomas Hobbes

Sometimes, God’s silence is a challenge for us to act

Sunday Adelaja

Only their efforts to make him talk failed. he would say one word at a time, if pressed, but seemed happier not to and could not be made to repeat a whole line. Gradually, as his family learnt how to anticipate his few needs and how to respond, they ceased to notice his silence -his manner of communication seemed full and rich enough to them: he no more needed to converse than Aunt Mira's cat did.

Anita Desai

There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.

Maurice Switzer

There are many kinds of silences and not all signify absence or vacancy....Those moments are but temporary ebbs before the flow of meaning rushes in to fill the space....God may be speaking 'in ways we have yet to recognize as speech.

Terryl L. Givens

who knows your silence is screening some back stage trouble for me as I have spoken truth .

litymunshi

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.

Shūsaku Endō

The silence is becoming more poisonous and I have no one to talk with, not even my own self

Hilal Hamdaan

Periods of silent solitude spent in introspective reflecting are sacred and a source of great strength and comfort. We can learn from listening to the rhythms of nature and from appreciating the eternal hush of the cosmos.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Sometimes our best speech is the way we look in silence!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You can speak loudly with deep silence

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet?

Joubert

It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.

Robin Hobb

Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished.

Rebecca Solnit

He seemed not to know the uses of silence.

Ursula K Le Guin

When the truth is known, all descriptions cease, and silence alone remains. #Yoga Vasistha

Abhishek Kumar

Time will tell...Time will answer...Silence... and time....

Deyth Banger

What is this life! you cry out. Only silence answers, and it is eloquent. Shining eyes open in the darkness, the eyes of that face, smiling too much and too long. Without a word, that smile coerces from you an old question: Was it all so useless? The smile pushes up at its edges, too rigid to be real. You cannot look away as it widens past all natural proportion. There is nothing left but that big smile. It is the last thing you see: a great gaping mouth like the entrance to a carnival ride. Then: the sense of being swallowed. That is the story; that is the plot of our lives.

Thomas Ligotti

The person who has read just a single book argues. The person who has read the entire library watches in silence.

Unknown

When asked, 'What did you want to say in this work?' he would answer, 'I've said what I've said.'This made sense in where everyone assumed music had a meaning - but where saying the wrong thing could get a person killed.-Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

M.T Anderson

. . . I am in my hermitage perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the time. I relish and enjoy time with others. I have been called "the sociable hermit." Ironically, lengthy solitude often invokes a verbal avalanche when I find myself with a dear and treasured friend, or at a rare social occasion. . . . Solitaries, I suppose, are not always introverts.

Barbara Erakko Taylor

For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when it is relative to the world in which it is lived. It is unreal if attempted in fantasy--as though telephones and fax machines, the Internet and E-mail did not exist. (36)

Barbara Erakko Taylor

Things always happen as they should and when they should. Our intuition provides us with guidance on our true purpose. These messages come from the heart. We can only hear them when we're silent not through a cluttered mind.

Nanette Mathews

There was cruelty in silence, and isolation made it worse.

Jordan Dane

The silence encompassing the feeling so juvenile, veiling everything but a sham smile.

Parul Agrawal

Never allow yourself to believe you should be silent.

Samantha Shannon

That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

Michael Finkel

There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those.

Laini Taylor

Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.

Joyce Rachelle

Still, the ten days were enough for me to see, as if peering over the edge of a well, that silence could be mystical, and that if you dared, diving fully into your inner depths might be both profound and disturbing.

Michael Finkel

Silence is not a reply. However, it shows a way of avoiding further discussion and critical questions and the escape from the reality or idiocy, since it is a personal diplomacy.

Ehsan Sehgal

Reading your sonnets?” asked Orphu. Mahnmut closed the book. “How’d you know? Have you taken up telepathy now that you’ve lost your eyes?” “Not yet,” rumbled the Ionian. Orphu’s great crab shell was lashed to the deck ten meters from where Mahnmut sat near the bow. “Some of your silences are more literary than others, is all.

Dan Simmons

Talking is good. It's good to disturb the silence.

Marty Rubin

The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Don't be afraid to talk because in the long run, you will be afraid that you were too silent.

Anthony T.Hincks

When once misfortune enters a house, silence is in vain.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Silence doesn’t have to be a major pilgrimage into the wilderness in order to find a solitary space. Everyday tasks such as driving around town, folding laundry, preparing food, washing dishes, or taking walks can all provide a measure of solitude each day when approached with the right mindset and a commitment to shut off televisions, computers, tablets, smartphones, radios, and anything else that could interrupt silence.

Ed Cyzewski

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