Quotes About Silence

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.

From what you didn't say, lies that you did say.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert. He has learnt the secret of restraint, he has controlled himself. He goes through the streets of a big city with all its traffic, and his mind is as calm as if he were in a cave, where not a sound could reach him; and he is intensely working all the time. That is the ideal of Karma-Yoga

When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret

Do not spend your energy in talking, but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. When your mind is in the highest state, you are unconscious of it.

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Here is an exercise in advanced Right Speech. Starting tomorrow when you wake up, don't gossip. See what happens if you just give up making comments about anyone not present. Listen carefully to the voice in your mind as it is getting ready to make a comment, and think to yourself, "Why am I saying this?" Awareness of intention is the best clue for knowing whether the remark you are about to make is Right Speech. Is

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf—Tribe Unknown

answer to penetrate, but when it did she clapped a hand over her mouth.

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Still reading, Miss St John? You read a lot, don't you? - It saves me from conversation.

I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

But words must be found, for besides words there is almost nothing.

She herself was a rape victim, attacked at a party when she was fifteen. It was 1963. Nobody talked about sex. Nobody talked about rape.

She wanted to say something that would let him know how much he'd hurt her. Something that would hurt him. But words failed her. They tangled together like knotted shoestrings in her mind, so she said nothing.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

And we all go with them, into the silent funeral,Nobody's funeral, for there is no one to bury.I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon youWhich shall be the darkness of God.

Even the most voluptuous of fast-paced and lace-clad women cannot console the anguish of masculine tears blocked and cries muffled. Broken men try to mask their hurts behind empty emblems of success, but hidden behind those frail facades are screaming hearts bound in a forced silence.

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.