Quotes About Silence

Si Asaf trecea uneori prin starea aceasta, dar nu stia cum sa o descrie in cuvinte si prefera sa nici nu încerce macar, pentru ca daca exprimi ceva in cuvinte, acel lucru ramane pentru totdeauna si te urmareste ca o sentinta pronuntata impotriva ta.

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

Tamar noticed that she had never met a person she felt so comfortable being silent with.

That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty

For them it might stave off what he could not help but see with clarity: that the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty.

But one thing above all gave Bollingen its special quality: silence. Jung was a great one for silence, just as he could on occasion be a torrential talker. The two compensated each other. It was a vital necessity for him to sink himself in profound introversion; this was the fountainhead of helpful and vivifying powers. Creative ideas took shape in the inner and outer stillness.82

he knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.

The area became known as the Zone of Silence because normal radios do not work within the 1,500 square mile area. Some sort of interference generated within the zone jams the signals.

All day long, year in and year out, that Presence fills our mirror-deep minds, whispering all its silence through us, replacing meaning/thought with the elemental beauty of meaninglessness, the clarity of the ten thousand things.

He made not even the briefest mention, indeed no mention at all, of the Nazis' extermination of Europe's Jews.

What those courageous actions during the war were he did not say.

No such criticism of the racial laws would ever escape the pope's lips or pen, not in 1939, nor over the following years in which they were in force.

continuing the new pope's policy of remaining silent about the issue.

How much of our lives take place in the elusive spaces of this world—how much is conveyed, like the artistry of the master musician, in the silence between the notes?

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

desert kept a still tongue, and when

silence and calm are more intimidating than any outburst,

Violence can command respect. Violence can silence and intimidate, and ward off risks and threats. But violence can also cause chaos and a whole chain of unwanted consequences.

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

We cannot read each other's hearts, and sadly, silence is its own pervasive pastime. We are disposed more to assuming masks than we are to revealing the tenderness and freight within that might transform the world. More than any other time in history it seems the man and woman standing in close proximity to each other in a subway car are as far away from each other as two galaxies.

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.

At what point, I wondered, does silence become complicity?

don't be a backseat driver. Instead, quietly recite mantras of protection. For example: "You're going to get us all killed.

So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.