Quotes About Silence

you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?

Give them nothing, but give it politely.

The inner aim of thought is never fully realized until it ripens into vocal utterances through which others can have access- albeit indirect- to our personal experience. In fact,an inner experience only achieves true completeness when it has been spoken. No matter how profound an insight one may gain, as long as it stays inarticulately concealed within an introspective silence, it remains one-dimensional and incomplete.

You may see all that is around you But you may feel nothing at all. So try and close your eyes so tight And listen to the night time fall.

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

It's odd with people who are shy: they never quite learn how to speak, to feel at home with words in their mouths.

What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.

We need not be afraid of silence; sometimes it can help us listen to our precious inner messages.

The phone she left behind in its foggy balloon is just recording the empty aluminum canoe now, and one blurry corner of the little cooler. But it's listening in its muted way. What it hears is the front part of Lotte's scream. She doesn't get to finish it.

Sure, what should I watch?" he asked. There hadn't been anything on television for months. Every station, save those used by the government, were off the air.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

I am speechless: what can I answer? I put hand on my mouth. I have said too much already; now I will speak no more.

passage from Cicero's defense of Titus Annius Milo in ancient Rome on murder charges: "When arms speak, the laws are silent; they bid none to await their word .... And yet most wisely, and, in a way, tacitly, the law authorises self-defence .... The man who had employed a weapon in self-defence was not held to have carried that weapon with a view to homicide.

Great Light, Mover of all that is moving and at rest, be my Journey and my far Destination, be my Want and my Fulfilling, be my Sowing and my Reaping, be my glad Song and my stark Silence. Be my Sword and my strong Shield, be my Lantern and my dark Night, be my everlasting Strength and my piteous Weakness. Be my Greeting and my parting Prayer, be my bright Vision and my Blindness, be my Joy and my sharp Grief, be my sad Death and my sure Resurrection!

El respeto es un tesoro valioso que no cuesta nada. Si pudieras contener tu lengua, verías que puedes aprender a ser cortés.

The snow lay deep and undisturbed beneath the silver light of a dawning sky.

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

When you sit alone and think out your thoughts … then that is your loudest cry!

That high pitch scream emitted by Rose made me wince! Her ear bursting howls would stun me into silence as much as it silenced the eldest child in their home, eight-year-old Anna-Marie.

Stonewall Jackson, wrapped in his beard and his silence.

This is the backward hemisphere. Underdeveloped. The realm of the second-class (save for an upper crust, with their silvered spoons). This is the kingdom of poverty, of disease and the starving peasant...the hemisphere of silence...of patient resignation...up to a point.

Buda disse "Se sua boca estiver aberta, você não está aprendendo", e Calvin Coolidge disse, "Ninguém jamais foi despedido por escutar demais".