Silence Quotes - Page 8

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Silence is also a form of speaking.

There are always a million words behind the silence.

Shannon L. Alder

In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.

Silence by any other name is called shame.

Shannon L. Alder

It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.

I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them.

Jeanette Winterson

Mass media has convinced us to think that silence is only supposed to happen as a manifestation of supreme actualization, where both parties are so at peace with their emotional connection that it cannot be expressed through the rudimentary tools of the lexicon; otherwise, silence is proof that the magic is gone and the relationship is over (hence the phrase “We just don’t talk anymore”).

Chuck Klosterman

Silence is the biggest weapon sometime..

Debolina Bhawal

If I am ever unexpectedly stopped in my car by the police, my response after pulling over in a populated area is to politely and clearly inform them that I am unarmed, I am recording everything, if they want to take me to the police station that they will need to appoint a lawyer, and I am now using my USA federal right to silence.

Men who cannot be silent will not say anything when they talk.

A pregnant pause with enough gestation can give birth to a well formed idea.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

If people were silent, they could hear the noise of their own lives better. If people were silent, it would make what they did say, whenever they chose to say it, more important. If people were silent, they could read one another's signals, the way underwater creatures flash lights at one another, or turn their skin different colors.

I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection.I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me.I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain.I chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips.I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.

Jalaluddin Rumi

When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays.

If there must be a god in the house, must be,Saying things in the rooms and on the stair,Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghostOr Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang outHis stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.

Wallace Stevens

Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all.

Agatha Christie

Shhhhhhhh..... Be silent. Silence your mind and listen.... Let the voice of your soul echo and shiiiiine!

One's silence can be deafening indeed,but it's also quite satisfying once in a while to actually hear one's thoughts just to reassure a presence.

When a man goes silent on his ways and plans, you must ponder!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Most often, their association was one of silence, but that is a thing of uncommon worth when partaken of in the ease of another.

He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald)

What can you talk to sky? Just nothing...simply enjoy the vastness and magnanimity. What can you talk to ocean? Nothing....enjoy the waves.

I knowThat I can't sit hereAnd expect my silenceTo evoke changeWithout reason.

Jordan Hoechlin

One of the most powerful lessons silence teaches us is to ponder

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

One of the most powerful lessons silence teach us is to ponder

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I think silence is one of the failures of people today. When they see an injustice or intolerance, and they stay silent - that's the worst thing.

Anonymous

You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.

E.A. Bucchianeri

It was normal for it to rain, but in October- who could forget the rains of October?- now this disturbingly silent rain was falling. That was so nebulous that it was pretty; that, if it had not been wet, no one would have believed it was raining; that was so slow that it was possible to follow its fall with one's eyes. That which villagers called 'the rains of October' was the accumulation of the serenity of such a life. Eyes almost broke into tears on looking at the sun subdividing itself, at the end of the afternoon, in each drop of that snail's-pace precipitation, as if the great star had dissolved each day an infinitesimal bit more.

Ondjaki

Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.

G.K. Chesterton

Inspired action is when you take action with no mind. Pure silence.

Matthew Donnelly

Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?

His silence helps him come off as something of a seer, a whispering muse.

O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

William Shakespeare

real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

ChrysanthemumSilence - monk Sips his morning tea.

I had dedicated my life to words. But sometimes, words are not needed.

Silence is the loudest sound!

Gabriella Jording

In the summer,on fine evenings, I love to drive late andalone in the scented forests, and when I havereached a dark part stop, and sit quite still, listeningto the nightingales repeating their little tune overand over aga^n after interludes of gurgling, or ifthere are no nightingales, listening to the marvelloussilence, and letting its blessedness descend intomy very souL The nightingales in the forestsabout here all sing the same tune, and in the samekey of (E flat).

Elizabeth von Arnim

The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though; it wasn't empty so much as chosen. There's an entirely different feel to quiet when you're with someone else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.

I did not speak. I have found in any Q&A, in court, in witness interviews, wherever, often the best thing you can do is wait, say nothing. The witness will want to fill the awkward silence. He will feel a vague compassion to keep talking, to prove he is not holding back, to prove he is smart and in the know, to earn your trust.

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

Silence is also a form of speaking. They’re exactly alike. It’s a basic component of language. We’re always selecting what we say and what we don’t. Why do we say one thing and not the other? And we do this instinctively, too, because no matter what we’re talking about, there’s more that doesn’t get said than does. And this isn’t always to hide things—it’s simply part of an instinctive selection in our speech. This selection varies from one person to the next, so that no matter how many people describe the same thing, the descriptions are different, the point of view is different. And even if there is a similar viewpoint, people make different choices as to what is said or not said. This was very clear to me, coming from the village, since the people there never said more than they absolutely needed to. When I was fifteen and went to the city, I was amazed at how much people talked and how much of that talk was pointless. And how much people talked about themselves—that was totally alien to me.For me, silence had always been another form of communication. After all, you can tell so much just by looking at a person. At home we always knew about each other even if we didn’t talk about ourselves all the time. I encountered a lot of silence elsewhere as well. There was the silence that was self-imposed, because you could never say what you really thought.

In the heart, silence becomes an echo of unanswered needs

I sit beside the momentThat stares at silenceBefore anything could happen

The best way to support terrorism is to be silent.

She sat in the silence that resulted in the absence of her words, feeling unburdened but not absolved.

Thomm Quackenbush

Information is like water. It finds its way to all the wrong places.

In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.

Andrew Pettegree

I maintained a tactical silence. When you maintain a tactical silence and look people right in the eye, as if drinking in their words, they talk. People like to be listened to, as every researcher knows--every researcher, every writer, every spy.

Michel Houellebecq

Silence is the most powerful scream.

Anonymous

I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard and secret in its own pocket. But the crimson birds could find no such escape, no means of slipping beyond themselves between the cracks of color and song to a white undiscovered silence.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed

Barbara W. Tuchman

Silence, like salt, only seems to be weightless. In reality, if one allows time to dampen it, it grows heavy as an anvil.

Guadalupe Nettel

When silence become silent, it speaks silently but loudly

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Dean Koontz is good in the silence makes silence... then he just attacks!- WOW

Volumes are spoken when nothing is being said.

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

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