Quotes About Silence

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

Silence is always with us. But we do not choose silence, silence chooses us. If you are called to be silent on your journey, recognize the invitation as a great gift. It is a gift to be shared with others. Your relationship to silence is one thing that will define the uniqueness of your journey.

the words I can't say are the holes I punch in the walls of my psyche...

I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat...

I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace...

when the room goes silent, someone has spoken with authority...

you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...

you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...

why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much? Mark Twain ...that's why ...

there's an impotency Viagra can't touch - the inability of a man to speak ...

all winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming...

my thoughts reach out like prayers to you - and if you are quiet, you can hear...

I once tried to approach Akiro Kurosawa, but he never answered.

People who are abused keep quiet," he said, "so I did.

Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.

Grinder's Whispering in the Wind.

I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.

Be silent" (Matt. 20:31; Mark 10:48; Luke 18:39). It is likely that the crowd was aware that Jesus was going to Jerusalem to present himself as king, and they did not want to be delayed by something as seemingly insignificant as a blind man. But Jesus again indicated by his attention that his kingdom is made up of such people.

They have forgotten these immortal words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor whose passion for truth drove him to confront Adolf Hitler and Germany:   Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.1.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.4       ââ'¬Â¢   Words can make a deeper scar than silence can ever heal.5       ââ'¬Â¢   Kind words are short to speak, but their echoes are endless.6

The heaven of stars bends over me in silence, a harp through which the wind of time still whispers music some hand has hushed but left there trembling-- where time has made such music!

I left, heavy with the words she refused to let me say.

The silence inside was familiar from all the years of mourning, a large house with parts of its soul carved away.

Some time ago I discovered that I could no longer speak aloud or read aloud from a stage, even for the sake of hearing the effect that my writer's voice produced on listeners. Now, curiously, the more I merely try to live, the more reclusive I become, the vainer I am. At last I am as vain as the one who instantly voices his silence inside me.