Quotes About Silence

the classic put-down to a chatty barber: "How do you like your hair cut, sir?" "In silence.

Let the hand of discretion cover the wise mouth.

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

The heart is a small closed space, a symbol or souvenir of the inner life, the secret life, the silent life. It is liable to come apart if you touch it.

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us wellnigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry, and distraction which life causes as it rushes on. F. W. FABER.

Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.

After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.

When we doubt, we learn to accept that we may not ever know. When we question, we learn to accept that there may be no answer. When we shout our doubt out into the universe, we learn to accept that we may be met with a silence we do not know how to read.

These contradictions begin to split a person in two. Body and mind fall apart from each other, and it is in this fissure that an eating disorder may flourish, in the silence that surrounds this confusion that an eating disorder may fester and thrive. An eating disorder is

The side of me that feared fire and longed for ice, that cringed at noise and hungered for silence, that shied from touch and desired to numb itself into nothing.

No cuckahwooooo

Zen is a double-edged sword, killing words and thoughts, yet at the same time, giving them life. Although beyond human intellect and philosophy, Zen is their root and source.

Mein schönstes Gedicht? Ich schrieb es nicht. Aus tiefsten Tiefen stieg es. Ich schwieg es.

So starb ich tausendmal. Doch da du kamst, Mocht ich das Glück, dir nah zu sein, nicht stören. Wie aber solltest du mein Schweigen hören, Da du doch nicht einmal mein Wort vernahmst ...

Altes Rezept Nimm das Dasein als Bewährungsfrist ohne Klagen, ohne Fragen. Schweigend steig hinauf die dunklen Treppen, Weil es immerhin noch leichter ist, sein Kreuz zu tragen, als es zu schleppen.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead

The brief silence that follows is as tender as a rainstorm of daisies.