Quotes About Silence

already upstairs in her

Let winter come. Let the snow fall and consume Bath in a shroud of silence. Let everything feel as bound and stifled as my heart.

something, but she slept on, unmoving. There was more – plenty more – that he could have said, but he knew that the time for saying it was long past.

He wanted to say, The person I love most in the world is about to leave me forever, but he knew these words were impossible to utter.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.

Sin always involves us in being unreal, pretending, duplicity, window dressing, excusing ourselves and blaming others--and we can do all that as much by our silence as by saying or doing something. This

Cuando el dolor es muy grande el sufrimiento es silencioso

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.

The student is told to set apart moments in his daily life in which to withdraw into himself, quietly and alone. He is not to occupy himself at such moments with the affairs of his own ego. This would result in the contrary of what is intended. He should rather let his experiences and the messages from the outer world re-echo within his own completely silent self. At such silent moments every flower, every animal, every action will unveil to him secrets undreamt of.

I asked Go to answer my questions, but the only sound was always the whistling of the wind filling the empty space.

At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

No need to listen for the fall. This is the world's end.

Those who beg in silence starve in silence

And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who see and are silent!

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with

Ere the moon has climbed the mountain, ere the rocks are ribbed with light

speak—a thing he would never have dared to do

promised his love to keep her quiet—that he had never

When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.

The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence

Those who beg in silence starve in silence,' said Kim, quoting a native proverb.