Quotes About Silence

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.

My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret.

Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life.

When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.

All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.

...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.