Quotes About Silence

Let X be the moon like a notary. Let Y be all things left unsaid.

There are so many things to say in the language of our kind, but really, nothing more needs to be said.

The place where no harm can come is the place where nothing at all can come.

No es necesario decir todo lo que se piensa; lo que sí es necesario es pensar todo lo que se dice.

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

the silence Holds with its gloved hand The wild hawk of the mind.

Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart

They say the eyes speak a thousand languages, but the lips, honey, the lips hold a million secrets—and it's the secrets that attract attention.

You have taught me to be still, so that I could move properly. You have taught me to listen, so that I can speak properly. You have taught me to see, so that I might not always be seen.

If you should ever be blessed to be far enough from the cacophony of civilization when a heavy snow falls, you can even hear the very music of the iced dew's delicate descent. It is the repainting of a landscape in a thousand hues of white. It is the dance of the wind.

While planning out or implementing any desired work, if you disclose it, its successful conclusion becomes doubtful. So, take care not to disclose it to anyone till its successful conclusion.

Persons, who are vigorous or hard-working, do not face poverty; persons dedicated in praying are sinless; silence does not lead to arguments, rather creates a peaceful atmosphere. Similarly, a person, who is careful, alert and aware, will be fearless and no one can harm him.

There are cries in the dark at night As owls answer the moon

Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.

Don't fear His silence. Use it to examine your heart and motives. Listen expectantly for the silence to be broken by the glory of His manifested presence once again in your life.

I prefer slow conversations where words are counted like pearls, conversation with many pauses, pauses replacing words. An Unnecessary Woman

When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour, which was really a good thing because any kind of noise would make the soufflé drop, and there is nothing worse than a flaccid soufflé, is there, Jezebel darling? Fallen! Fallen is the great soufflé! Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! From the sky huge hailstones of about a hundred pounds each fell upon men. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail and the fallen soufflé.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

There is no day nor night, nor form nor colour, and never, never a word. (#67)

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.

Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. Let it not be a death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.