Quotes About Silence

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.

The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

They found what some might call a preternatural silence.

Even though no threat had revealed itself, it seemed important to eliminate any possible moment of silence. As if somehow the blankness of the walls fed off of silence, and that something might appear in the spaces between our words if we were not careful. Had I expressed this anxiety to the psychologist, she would have been worried, I know. But I was more attuned to solitude than any of us, and I would have characterized that place in that moment of our exploration as watchful.

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.

A voice came to him as if from a dark, empty well lined with moss. A voice saying his name, telling him to answer a question.

But he didn't tell her and she didn't tell him, and if it guessed their secrets, it kept silent. He

As if somehow the blankness of the walls fed off of silence, and that something might appear in the spaces between our words if we were not careful.

she said not a word because to say anything—anything at all—would be to humiliate him, and she cared more about him than that. And it cost her nothing.

Sabon further speculates that Glaring's embezzlement had been discovered and was used as leverage to make him forge the journal pages, for otherwise, some of his relatives having disappeared in the Silence, he would have been disinclined to suppress evidence as to mushroom dweller involvement.127

As if somehow the blankness of the walls fed off of silence, and that something might appear in the spaces between words if we were not careful.

Silence creates its own violence.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

It's every man for himself," he said, and went back to reading. After my mother had died and he'd been laid off from his machinist job over in Milton, he'd retreated into near silence and the print reality of other worlds. Connection was tough for him and only getting tougher as he aged. Maggie asked me once if the reason I wanted to become a writer was to somehow make contact with him.

The silence was so loud

Nothing," Elsa lied. It wasn't possible to put all she was thinking into words.

Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.

It sucks being in love with someone and never being allowed to show it.

One of the best ways to blast past the noise in our brains and discover what's going on underneath is through meditation. Sitting in purposeful silence.