Quotes About Silence

God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

Quiet is a think tank of the soul."17 Simply put, God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

Unspeakable"--unspeakability?--comes in three varieties. First, that which cannot be said because one does not know it, and therefore cannot say it. Second, that which cannot be spoken because it is culturally impermissible to do so. And third, that which cannot be named because it is impossible, since the language provides no terms, no words to enable articulation.

It makes you crazy, for something you know to be true, know from the very core or root of you, to remain unspeakable.

If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences.

Slipped beneath the minnow Pea front door] Nollopton Monty No-way 6 Insane woman named Ella: Retreat is what we want. Go away. Let we alone. Anonymess

A recently deceased American Zen master and navy veteran, John Daido Loori, used to say that those who think Buddhism is just about stillness end up sitting very silently up to their necks in their own shit.

Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.

became a mute

believe you can learn almost everything you need to know—and more than other people would like you to know—simply by watching and listening, keeping your eyes peeled, your ears open. And your mouth closed.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her.

To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

I pressed him gently on the matter, but he seemed a little reticent, which is maybe what you'd be wise to expect from a cryptologist who was also a practicing hermeticist.

I don't like to talk about my songs. It's self-defeating, it is the antithesis of what a songwriter wants to do. He writes a song so he doesn't have to talk about it.

Great souls suffer in silence. JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER During

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

The marathon lane is largely empty, mostly silent: the road of the damned rather than the saved.

When you walk, cherish the silence. Let your mind wander. The child within picks up crayons & begins to write.

So, we've done murder," Danny whispers.

Now and then I'd catch my mother looking at my like she was thinking about her life, like she was about to say something, but she never did. I didn't expect it. Sometimes it's better not to go back--just settle accounts as they are, call it even.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence — which prompts reflection and random reverie.