Quotes About Silence

Words. Words had the power of exactly, precisely nothing. Hand grenades blow shit up. They meant something when they landed next to you. Words meant someone was talking, nothing more.

It's better to shut up and appear stupid than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Those who speak know nothing. Those who know are silent.

Le dije que me gustaba, y quedé insatisfecha. La verdad era que a veces no me gustaba nada, pero no podía vivir sin ella. Le dije que la quería, pero también quiero a mi perro. Después le dije que la amaba, pero mi incomodidad fue mayor aún [...] decidí prescindir del lenguaje, entonces me acusó de no querer comunicarme. Desde hace unos años, sólo existe el silencio. Encuentro, en él, una rara ecuanimidad: la de los placeres solitarios.

As Boehme puts it: "When you remain silent from the thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed in you. . . . Your own hearing, willing and seeing hinder you so that you do not see and hear God.

contemplative prayer is simply a wordless, trusting opening of self to the divine presence. Far from being advanced, it is about the simplest form of prayer there is. Children recognize it instantly—as I did—perhaps because, as the sixteenth-century mystic John of the Cross intimates, "Silence is God's first language."1

she understood he was lonely and that their ritual comforted him, connected the noises of her life with the silence of his

Neither of them even had time to scream.

Jade helped Az into the BMW. Well, helped, shoved, same thing. The guy still wasn't talking. With the bullets in him, maybe he was just in too much pain to talk right then.

You should have spoken up sooner." her grandmother answered. "No need to bear pain unless you have to.

I've got my rights, haven't I? If I choose to say nothing, I suppose I can. It's no use your trying to use third degree methods on me." "Nowadays," said Mallett quietly, "people of your sort usually call them 'Gestapo methods'. You should try to be a little more up to date.

Though not for certain, perhaps in some other year, It shall come to completion in the sixth millennium, or next Tuesday. The demiurge's workshop will suddenly be stilled. Unimaginable silence. And the form of every single grain will be restored in glory. I was judged for my despair because I was unable to understand this.

What is not pronounced tends to nonexistence.

You whom I could not save Listen to me. Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another. I swear, there is in me no wizardry of words. I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree. What strengthened me, for you was lethal.

Neither of us knew that the other liked this sort of thing." "People don't talk about it. That's why. You can know people for years and yet not know in the very least what they think about religion.

If you want a revolution/grow a new mind/and do it quietly if you can

For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.

Perhaps your father wouldn't like it?" suggested Patty doubtfully. "Uncle James didn't like it much. I mean Hugo had to be very tactful about it. He couldn't really get on with his plans until Uncle James died. He died quite suddenly." (Arsenic, thought Will—but he still remained silent.)

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she's breaking her silence, my heart stops.

I believe the regressive Left - the group of people who use illiberal tactics to silence those defending liberal principles - to be the Left's version of the Tea Party.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.