Quotes About Silence

Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story.

the nights would be orphaned without the sound of crickets chirping.

And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest musicleaving tears on the glass, which is what music does to memost of the timebut silence too. and rain.

Sounds of Time rattles the silence of Reality. An illusion pierces through similar existence and creates a conflict zone.

The emptiness, the way his heels rang on the asphalt, was satisfying, emphasised his aloneness. A man alone, alone late at night with no one to say he should be home in bed.

All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

Neither of us had anything to say, or rather we had everything to say, but after all those nights of not saying a word, we suddenly found we had not one dollar of time left between us.

In time of war the laws are silent.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.

Take me someplace where we can be silent together.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.