Quotes About Silence

This night the password was silence, and the soldier at the gate responded with silence to Cincinnatus' silence and let him pass; likewise at all the other gates.

Darkness and silence merged completely

Eis a pessoa que eu quero. Olá, pessoa! Não me ouve.

The silence inside the library, the big chairs, and long tables, and the fact that the library was always there and didn't seem to have a mortgage on it, or any sort of insecurity about it—all of that made me love it.

Without rest in the darkness, Weary as the tired night, My soul Empty as the silence, Empty with a vague, Aching emptiness, Desiring, Needing someone, Something.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

I paused, allowing the

Over two thousand people died in that vicious intramural bloodletting. While the Jews of Palestine were developing the young leaders and the social institutions that would be their greatest resource, Haj Amin Husseini methodically deprived the Arabs of theirs. Throttling progress and any drift to rational thought with his angry fanaticism, cowing with the guns of his ignorant villagers the educated elite, he reduced a generation of Arab leadership to fear and silence.

You don't have to respond to everything said to you. Sometimes you can just smile.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

I didn't learn anything while I was talking.

I never learned anything when I was talking.

Do you know that when Hitler's Final Solution to eliminate the Polish Jews was first mentioned in the Times it was on page twenty-eight. And on page six of the Washington Post.

This story has no point but stillness itself...

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

Silence as I am using the term is a dimension of existence. You can live in it. It is what spiritual life is all about. It is quite literally unfathomable, limitless space permeated by a vast stillness. In a way it is inside us—that is where we seek it—though at some point in our exploration words like inside and outside, all the spatial terms I've been forced to use, don't mean a thing.

They can't believe they're just supposed to sit there and watch the breath.

Zaten ölüm sihirli sözcü?ü onun. rujunu yazeler gibi ölümden söz eder. Böyle süsleniyor, ifadesine ölümün bilinmezli?i sinecek... s. 15

To silence another, first be silent yourself.

Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.

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