Quotes About Silence

if you learn to listen to the silence, you'll hear more of everything else.

In a culture in which "connection" usually refers to the strength of the cell phone signal, quieting the mind - even just sitting alone in the backyard, much less in the forest - can be a difficult rite of passage.

when we "lose our mind" and "come to our senses" in the fullest possible way, the chattering, texting, e-mailing, twittering mind will eventually quiet down and almost silence itself. This is a sacred and connected silence...It's like a deep, still pond reflecting the stars of the night sky. I believe this is the baseline for human consciousness, and I'm convinced that the birds are the best mentors in the natural world for bringing us to it.

The past shows unvaryingly that when a people's freedom disappears, it goes not with a bang, but in silence amid the comfort of being cared for. That is the dire peril in the present trend toward statism. If freedom is not found accompanied by a willingness to resist, and to reject favors, rather than to give up what is intangible but precarious, it will not long be found at all. —Richard Weaver, 1962 I

Om han skriker uten at noen hører det - har han da skreket?

The fact that I'm silent doesn't mean I have nothing to say.

There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.

Las cazas de brujas, en general, tienen cuatro atributos: parecen surgir de la nada; incluyen acusaciones de delitos contra el colectivo; las ofensas que dieron lugar a esas acusaciones son a menudo triviales o fabricadas; y las personas que saben que los acusados son inocentes guardan silencio, o en casos extremos, se suman a la multitud.

A painter paints pictures on canvas, but a musician paints pictures on silence.

Do you know what the people will say about this day thousands of years from now? What they will say about these creatures and their valiant last stand? Nothing... because we will not tell them. Oblivion is all there is for--

No one spoke all the way to Hollywood.

He...wondered if his own occasional doubts about the existence of God might in some way be mutual. Did anyone in the heavens really believe in him, Andrew Green, this awkward boy below, his spirit, his potential for good? His own question frightened him into muteness, the kind of silence the living rarely know, the moon hanging sullied by smoke in the sky, filthy with the expulsions of men.

Ve?er u stolu muži probírali akce, vypráv?li si historky, porovnávali si zkušenosti, n?kte?í smutn?, jiní vesele. Jiní ml?eli, a práv? na ty bylo t?eba dát pozor.

He that would keep a secret must keep it secret that he hath a secret to keep.

Sometimes there aren't words, Benny knew. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines. Benny had left his footprints in the dust of that place.

But the colonel said and did nothing as the seconds splintered off the clock and fell like debris on the floor.

Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines.

Most parents look back at the outcomes of past parenting decisions and, unhappy with the results, make adjustments for the future. The intriguing part of this whole equation was the stigma that seemed to go along with these changes or adaptations. Most parents don't advertise, "Here's where I messed up!" It's embarrassing! So they keep it to themselves. Sadly, their silence keeps other parents from learning from their mistakes.

A flapping tongue puts out the light of wisdom."~Polly Shine

When you got a question," Polly said before Granada could ask, "first be silent. Look around you. Let creation speak the truth to you." She

They all watched silently as she walked toward her cabin, but when she got to the doorway she stopped and turned around. She stood for a moment with her chin lifted and her eyes closed. What on earth was she doing? Granada wondered.

The silence of an entire race was evidence of your superiority. Fast-forward

A flapping tongue puts out the light of wisdom.

Anyone—pope, propagandist, anti-Communist, anti-racist—who wants to silence criticism or regulate an argument in order to keep wrong-thinking people out of power has no moral claim to be anything but ignored.