Quotes About Silence

The terminal has that too-suddenly-hushed feeling of the moment after loud music stops.

The East-Coast existential treat is thus some escape from confines and stimuli—silence, rustic vistas that hold still, a turning inward: Away. Not so in the rural Midwest. Here you're pretty much Away all the time. The land here is big. Pool-table flat. Horizons in every direction.

I went to her for comfort and found her almost hostile. Her eyes were dark and she was silent and trying with every fiber to look Unhappy.

Los científicos coinciden en que tan solo alcanzamos el diez por ciento de nuestro potencial humano. En cambio, cuando establecemos el centro de nuestras actividades en el silencio, nuestro potencial se vuelve ilimitado.

En el vedanta se entiende que el silencio es nuestra propia conciencia humana, la cual reside en el corazón e impregna la totalidad del universo.

Los Vedas nos dicen que esta desconexión de la mente y el corazón es la causa de todo el sufrimiento que vemos hoy en el mundo. Los científicos creen que el estrés provoca el ochenta por ciento de las enfermedades que padecemos, pero lo que hace que el estrés sea tan predominante es la falta de silencio. Tal como señala el Dr. Frawley, este es el motivo por el que resulta tan importante que incluyamos la práctica de la meditación en nuestra vida.

I caught a pebble in the moonlight.

Now the screams were awful to hear as men burned like candles all along the deck. Black smoke billowed over the sea. Argurios could not believe what he was watching. At least fifty helpless men were dying in agony. One man managed to free himself and leap into the sea. Amazingly, when he surfaced the flames were still consuming him. All along the beach there was silence as the stunned crowd watched the magical fires burning the galley and it's crew.

A sense of calm settled over Tenaka. An inner peace seemed to pulse from the very earth at his feet, from the distant blue mountain, to whisper in the long grass of the Steppes. He closed his eyes and opened his ears to the music of silence.

Don't volunteer anything. Let the other person do all the talking. Most people can't stand silence, so they have to fill it up with words.

There are people who read books and there are people that make noise.

The terrible thing is that Hitler's enemies know him better than anybody, and the press – which is of course wholly in Jewish hands – has defamed and ridiculed the man. An old trick: first a deathly silence, then scorn, then all-out war – and then annexation. (There are Jewish firms that manufacture swastikas.)

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

We must admit that God owes us nothing. Before we charge God with not caring, we must thank Him for those times when His care is very evident. We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us.[8]

Death leaves trails of mutes.

breathtaking , adj . Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

you'd think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it's painful.

We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.

A sound waiting to be a word.

I am starting to get tired of relying on words.

dissonance , n . Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't hear it.

We know that some of you are still scared. We know that some of you are still silent. Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.

The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

taciturn , adj. There are days you come home silent. You say words, but you're still silent. I used to bombard you with conversational crowbars, but now I simply let the apartment fall mute. I hear you in the room -- turning on music, typing on the keys, getting up for a drink, shifting in your chair. I try to have my conversation with those sounds.