Quotes About Silence

That sad word love,' she said, and became pensive and silent.

Sex & Money The Warden of the Order of Silence (Kensington: The Settlement Press, n.d.) '...all the troubles of human life can be grouped under one or other of these words.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

Remember, words are the enemy of poetry.

A story is what remains when you leave out most of the action.

There were no lions any more. There had been lions once. Sometimes in the shimmer of the heat on the plains the motion of their running still flickered on the dry wind — tawny, great, and quickly gone. Sometimes the honey-colored moon shivered to the silence of a ghost-roar on the rising air.

In meditation we experience the silence from which all creativity springs. The act of creation—whether from a blank page to a poem, an empty space to a building, a thought to a song or film—starts with a void. The more intimate a relationship we can build with that silent void, the more clearly the art can shine through and spring forth. Meditation is the vehicle to connect to that silence." —Rick Rubin, Malibu 2013

The stillness and silence shrouding Papá was the most complete I'd ever experienced. The silence came from where his breathing used to be. But it wasn't only his breathing that was missing. It was his presence.

Carrie didn't answer because it was true and she

There were many things a man might think he should be told when a woman agreed to marry him. She had choose not to mention several of them

El silencio nos ayuda a bucear por debajo de la superficialidad de nuestras construcciones mentales hasta el lugar de nuestro corazón, que resulta más profundo en cuanto a su realidad, que cualquier cosa que la mente pueda captar o expresar en palabras.

In silence our speech patterns are refined because silence fosters a self-awareness that enables us to choose more truly the words that we say.

Cuando Elías entró en la soledad y el silencio, una de las primeras cosas que debió tener en cuenta fue lo cansado, lo agotado que se encontraba a todo nivel.

Pero los tiempos de soledad y silencio no son tiempos para emitir juicios con respecto nuestra conducta. Son tiempos para darnos cuenta, para descubrir, la verdad sobre nosotros mismos en un momento dado, y entonces presentarnos a Dios con todo aquello que hemos notado.

Las prácticas de la soledad y el silencio resultan radicales porque nos desafían en cada nivel de nuestra existencia.

Practicing rhythms of silence and words, stillness and action, helps us learn to wait on God--which doesn't come easily for those of us accustomed to busily trying to make things happen.

But times of solitude and silence are not times for judging. They are times for noticing — noticing what is true about us in a given moment and then being in God's presence with the things we've noticed.

We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.

Psalm 46: 10 tells us there is a kind of knowing that comes in silence and not in words-but first we must be still. The Hebrew word translated "Be still" literally means "Let go of your grip.

I have just described an unforgettable event in my life, and yet I hardly ever get a chance to speak of it. It doesn't fit the framework of social discourse.

Is this what it sounds like, going deaf?

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

In my hometown, there are two brothers with contrary characters. One is clever and eloquent, the other is foolish and silent. The foolish one seems to have all the time in the world. The clever one is always busy depleting his life.