Quotes About Silence

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Never miss a good chance to shut up." ? Will Rogers

1. Ask: "Do you want to talk about how you're feeling?" 2. Don't ask if there's anything you can do. Suggest things, or if it's not intrusive, just do them. 3. You don't have to talk all the time. Sometimes just being there is enough.

Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words.

Why didn't this one say this, or tell someone that, or let anyone know she or he was so unhappy, so lonely, so scared? Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words. WHEN

Connelly writes, "As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds, just as people whisper the words they're forbidden to speak aloud." In

3. You don't have to talk all the time. Sometimes just being there is enough.

For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think while others... well, often fall apart. Not so bad, not so bad at all. Being queer and self-sufficient is the best present at this season.

The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.

I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard…

With pen and with pencil we're learning to say Nothing, more cleverly every day.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

Why art thou silent and invisible, Father of Jealousy?

The moon like a flowerIn heaven's high bower,With silent delight,Sits and smiles on the night.

Never seek to tell thy loveLove that never told can be;For the gentle wind does moveSilently, invisibly.I told my love, I told my love,I told her all my heart;Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears—Ah, she doth depart.Soon as she was gone from meA traveler came bySilently, invisibly—Oh, was no deny.

He withers all in silence, and in his hand Unclothes the earth and freezes up frail life.

Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything.

Instantly, the black water enfolded him, cooled him to his heart, and declared, "There is no hope; there never was." The saints was absolute, and full of the silence of a trapped scream.

Instantly, the black water enfolded him, cooled him to his heart, and declared, "There is no hope; there never was." The darkness was absolute, and full of the silence of a trapped scream.