Silence Quotes - Page 6

A kind of silence, if I may say, was walking through the house, and, like most silence, it was not silent at all: it rapped on the doors, echoed in the clocks, creaked on the stairs, leaned forward to peer into my face and explode.

Silence has always been my default mode—my best defense against the rest of the world.

Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.

Shannon L. Alder

Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.

Will people not be thrown face down into Hell only on account of the harvest of their tongue?

Anonymous

We didn't talk much, and the silence hung like a silk curtain, light and lovely.

I see myself abandoned, solitary, thrown into a cell without dimensions, where light and shadows are silent phantoms. Within my inner self I find the silence I am seeking. But it leaves me so bereft of any memory of any human being and of me myself, that I transform this impression into the certainty of physical solitude. Were I to cry out — I can no longer see things clearly — my voice would receive the same indifferent echo from the walls of the earth.

Clarice Lispector

Always, just beyond all these things, was the silver sea, the lace border around all land like the silence around sounds or the unknowns beyond all knowledge.

If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.

She drifted down into the water, letting it engulf her body until even her face was underwater. The silence was delicious, just the sound of her own heartbeat in her ears.

Crissi Langwell

In general, silence often reflects ambiguity on the part of the listener as the observer wishes to understand the other's experience.

Sandra Leanne Bosacki

Sarah...loved the way the light lit the silence first thing in the morning.

Of silence, I can say only what I heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave–and so speech isn’t itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.

Christopher Hitchens

There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.

Mooji

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

Henry David Thoreau

It would never have crossed her mind spontaneously that somebody might actually need silence. That silence helps you to go inward, that anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence: this, I think, is not something Colombe is capable of understanding, because her inner space is as chaotic and noisy as the street outside.

Words cant explain everything.But silence never fails to mean something

Anonymous

You have family, only a brother you clearly don't like to speak about. Fine. That's all right." She ran her fingers through her hair. "But don't ever say dreams are a waste. It's a miracle I can still speak of dreams and futures after all I've been through. There's love in this world, Thristan, love that can encompass the heart abiding in humans' mortal, fragile bodies. And there are stupid little humans like me, dreamers, who believe one day they'll find it.

Madison Thorne Grey

Such anger. Do you want to talk about it?" Vincent called out. When there was no reply, Vincent picked up the whistling where he'd left off, smiling at the success of wreaking havoc on Darius. Vincent didn't hate Darius, or any other Gwarda for that matter, he simply got pleasure from messing with the race.

Madison Thorne Grey

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.

Jeff VanderMeer

Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

Henry David Thoreau

It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.

First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of the truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

John Stuart Mill

When the mind is silent, you can listen to your heart and remember that everything is Love and that you are that Love.

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud.

You are never alone,your Angels always whisper to your heart.By silencing your mind,you can be filled with their Love.

Pagans can be just as monstrous as any other group. They can be murderers, rapists, pedophiles. We need to accept that they are our problem and deal with them. We need to speak against their crimes and challenge them rather than letting our silence make us complicit.

Thomm Quackenbush

I totally allow myselfto feel every emotion,whatever it isand I observe itfrom my inner spaceof love and silence.

Silence is golden...but in times of tyranny it is blood red

The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.

Thinking belongs to duality. Love belongs to the Oneness. There is no thought without judgment, there is no Unconditional Love without the silence of the mind.

Your silence is loudest to those who love you most.

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

You whispered softly in the ear of my joyous heart.You know what's on my mind, you've heard my thoughts.I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Darkness is a kind of visual silence, and monks love it.

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

And it was so still. The silence of the fields seemed to enter and move familiarly through the house. The wind used the open hall. He felt that he was in a mysterious, quiet, cool danger. It was necessary to do what?...to talk.("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")

It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Patrick Rothfuss

The thing that seemed like silence must have been the endless cry of all the crickets and locusts in the world, rising and falling.("The Wide Net")

In the absence of uplifting words, Silence is the best choice.

Joan Ambu

In the woods it was not so much that it was quiet as that the few sounds were loud and distinct, not the orchestra tuning-up of the city but individual grace notes. Birdcalls broken into pieces like a piano exercise, a tree branch snapping sharp and then swishing down and thump on the ground, the hiss of water coming off the mountain.

I fuckin eat silence of crickets for fun. I got life afterlife and a name like Baby. Every time I try to cry a teara new kittenhead grows out of me.

Patricia Lockwood

There is a rest that comes when you live out of your sound. Silence is no longer something to be avoided. It signifies a soul at rest.

Suzette R. Hinton

I wanted to close my eyes and let the silence swallow me whole.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Silence is where my demons lurk, taunting me endlessly day after day until the end of time...yet still I wait, revelling in their company...

Virginia Alison

Silence is the best reply to those who provoke you. Smile is like icing on the cake.

You need to train yourself to be comfortable with silence, particularly when dealing with cultures that respect silence more than we do in the West.

Tony Buon

I never spoke — unless addressed —And then, 'twas brief and low —I could not bear to live — aloud —The Racket shamed me so —And if it had not been so far —And any one I knewWere going — I had often thoughtHow noteless — I could die —

Emily Dickinson

The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.

Henry David Thoreau

I've ceased to smile long ago, The bitter winds now chill my lips, Another hope was just let go, Another song was added since. Against my will, I'll cede this song To people's laughter and offense, Because love's silence for the soul Is too unbearably immense.

But as the years passed, Ned's silence grew and grew. It pressed upon his face and his body. It leaked into the house and spread outward into the yard. His silence had weight. It had substance and presence and teeth.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say--unless you insist on saying it.

Anonymous

Silence, like madness, is only comparative.

This forest silence improves anyone.

Robert M. Pirsig

Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.

The contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

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