Quotes About Silence

God uses every moment that we spend waiting upon Him—not a silent moment spent listening for Him is wasted.

I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.

I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.

Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

I am," I said To no one there An no one heard at all Not even the chair "I am," I cried "I am," said I And I am lost, and I can't even say why Leavin' me lonely still

Perils of solitude #1: People talk to you. I'd rather listen.

Silence has been replaced by background noise. It's a different world.

was born a Quaker,

A rich man doesn't need to tell you he's rich.

It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn't matter, if no one knew.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.

My bans extended to meetings of all kinds, not only political ones. I could not, for example, attend my son's birthday party. I was prohibited from talking to more than one person at a time. This was part of a systematic effort by the government to silence, persecute and immobilize the leaders of those fighting apartheid and was the first of a series of bans on me that continued with brief intervals of freedom until the time I was deprived of all freedom some years later.

Ma il silenzio amoroso tra una madre e un figlio non è una dimensione solitaria.

For a while they sat without talking. Anna got her daypack and dug out a paperback copy of Ivanhoe. It produced a book's inevitable effect. In cats it stimulated the urge to sit on the pages. In humans it stimulated conversation.

Our deepest feelings are precisely those we are least able to express, and even in the act of adoration, silence is our highest praise.

Quédate quieto y sabrás que Yo Soy Dios".  Cree, siente que Yo Soy; sabiendo que este conocedor dentro de ti, tu conciencia de ser, es Dios. Cierra tus ojos y siéntete sin rostro, sin forma y sin figura. Acércate a esta quietud como si fuera lo más fácil del mundo. Esta actitud asegurará tu éxito.

Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but are unable to do so?

Ngotho had never known where the other son had gone to. Now he understood. He wanted to tell of his own son: he longed to say, 'You took him away from me'. But he kept quiet. Only he thought Mr Howlands should not complain. It had been his war.

Ianto lying on his back in the bog. Snake-silent and lizard-still.

Some things do not bear telling. I think my father knew this. I think he knew how words can sometimes flatten the deepest emotions or pin them like wild butterflies stunned out of magnificent flight, flimsiest souvenirs of what moved and coloured air like silk. Better to imagine it.

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.