Quotes About Silence

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Sometimes, when you are not feeling really good is when you tend to write songs because you are internalising everything, and you are examining your thought process, and you are quieter and quite still, so it is when you write things down.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.

I don't know what stops Indian athletes from expressing their thoughts freely, maybe it is the fear of repercussions.

Before I got into stand-up, I was a really quiet guy who had all these thoughts, all these things I wanted to say, but there was never anyplace for me to say them because my mom would look at me and go, 'You better not say what you're thinking. You better not.'

Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

Cómo fue Dios quedándose sordo y mudo y ausente, irremediablemente atrás como la aurora?

Was Philip Dexter upset?" "He's telephoned the office every day." She was pleased about that. "Who else was upset?" "Everybody. Roosevelt orderded an hour of silence while you were on the table. Like Armistice Day.

No one said anything; they didn't need to. That's what it's like between best friends. Sometimes you just know what each other's thinking. You don't always have to say it.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Yes grand' mere" The clear brown eyes flickered and blinked; he looked at once apprehensive and shifty. His grandmother reflected that he knew nothing yet of what his future was to be, he was in her hands, and for a moment she felt the gratification of the power she had never had over the silent, convent-bred girl, her son's wife.

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

Taylor: what do you hear? Daisy: Nothing but rain

Not being able to speak is not the same as not having anything to say.

My husband's death changed my nature. I feel it impossible to be silent and tolerant anymore. It is impossible to be always a slave.

Words too can be wrung from us like a cry from that space which doesn't seem to be the body nor a metaphor curving into perspective. Rather the thickness silence gains when pressed. The ghosts of grammar veer toward shape while my hopes still lie embedded in a quiet myopia from which they don't want to arise. The mistake is to look for explanations where we should just watch the slow fuse burning. Nerve of confession. What we let go we let go.

He was silent for a minute. His gaze moved past me and grew distant as if he was watching his daughter slip away over a receding horizon. I had no children, but I had given up envying people who had.

Love is a funny thing," he says, breaking the silence. "Sometimes, I'd like to be better with words, so that I could talk about it more. It seems so wrong to me that there is this condition that affects all of us, more than anything else in our lives ever will, and only the poets and song writers get to talk about it with any sort of authority.

Without silence, we will not get any closer to knowing who we are before God.

Desde aquí, junto a la oreja sorda amo en secreto, y enmudezco.