Quotes About Silence

He wanted to talk and had nothing to say.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.

The first skill to develop for sensing energy is the ability to pay attention. Learn how to observe others by being silent. You know what it is like to sit back and watch. Observe any area about which you want more information without judgment or having any opinions or preconceived ideas about it. As you think intently about something, you will begin to receive guidance, ideas, and new thoughts about the issue.

People reveal as much by their silence as they do by what they say.

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

Silence followed, because they all knew there wasn't an extra twenty-five thousand in their treasury, not since the sewer project that was completed last summer. "I've already ordered the work

Trauma silences a person. It shatters your identity, and along with it, much of what you thought you knew.

El Mayor drink twice and thrice then crouch down to the radio. He tweak its side, and its voice halt in silence. His shoulders ease. Then I surprise how my own fear relieve. Radio voice been like the voice of flies when your best child is dead.

She was alone like a cat, like an owl, as if she walked unobserved, out of her human life.

Then, in this hour stolen from the war, our love be worse beyond. We cling together with no words, until our scary silence be another nakedness.

When a heart breaks it makes no noise. There are no outward signs, no rash, no bruising. Only a strange calmness that takes over when there are no more tears to shed and no more voice left to howl one's greed into the silence and the resignation that numbs one's senses like a drug, for how else would one be able to go on? People survive in spite of themselves.

Yo mismo había defendido que la unión máxima entre dos personas llega cuando son capaces de pasar una tarde sin dirigirse la palabra. La pura compañía en silencio.

Palabras, palabras, palabras. Plegarias nocturnas. Las que no se dijeron y ahora piensan y que en sus mentes son desgarrados alaridos, gritos de ansiedad y amor. Dos letanías silenciosas, y yo en medio de esa extraña tormenta, cerca de un planeta creado por ellos que jamás habitaron. Dos seres frágiles que añoran estar juntos y ser olvidados, y la vida, como un muro, interponiéndose.

No tira los bancos o (las sillas) estrepitosa o bruscamente, no toca ruidosamente las puertas; siempre se deleita en el silencio. La garza, el gato y el ladrón actúan queda y sigilosamente, y logran lo que desean. El asceta debe conducirse siempre de forma similar.

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.

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