Quotes About Silence

Deliver thunder, God, if you choose not to talk.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

From what you didn't say, lies that you did say.

God always remains silent.

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

Since nothing is absolute, there is no absolute silence, only an appearance of temporary peace.

Since there is no real silence, silence will contain all the sounds, all the words, all the languages, all knowledge, all memory.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

We don't know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

Her pearled voice quiets a fountain. Even the silence, quiets.

Our love is like a song, but you won't sing along.

El país siempre pierde. Los mexicanos siempre se tiran al vacío desde el Castillo de Chapultepec y no logran salir de allí. Por ello es mejor callar. Es mejor ignorar. Es mejor emigrar.

He hadn't lied with words, but sometimes the lie was the thing left unsaid.

It may be truly said of her that —'Strength is born In the deep silence of long suffering hearts, Not amidst joy.

The roses tremble; oh, the sunflower's eye Is opened wide in sad expectancy. Westward and back the circling swallows fly, The rooks' battalions dwindle near the hill. That low pulsation in the east is war: No bell now breaks the evening's silent dream. The bloodless clarity of evening's sky Betrays no whisper of the battle-scream.

You don't have to go on a quest to "find" silence-it's a matter of uncovering it right where you are. Think about it: if all external and internal sounds were eliminated, only silence would remain. The question is, how much silence can you bear? How deep are you willing to go below surface living to reconnect with who you truly are?

She had a sense of longing and loss that she had never had before. It was as if her family history had been erased and they'd been left unmemorable.She imagined that Rachel's family must have similar feelings, but she did not try to share these thoughts with Rachel.

En el silencio del jardín en una noche de Luna iluminado, puede ser capaz de oír los lamentos largos duraderos de narcisos ciegos y narcisos ciegos - para el verdadero apreciador de su belleza, elegancia y gracia. Es con grandes dificultades que un aficionado auténtico nunca llega en el jardín. La creación y el cultivo de la belleza sin duda requiere su verdadero apreciador.

No siguen las Masses, porque a veces el M es silenciosa.

Those who love you, and care for you, will always hear your silence several miles away. Love doesn't need any words to communicate. Love also epitomizes enormous power to connect two individuals, no matter the distance or time that separates them.

To understand the dilemma faced by people of color in race talk we must first become aware of (a) the situational context of oppression that they live under, (b) the ensuing psychological costs associated with racism, and (c) the negative personal and group consequences for breaking their silence.