Quotes About Silence

The details make life holy. If you want a little happiness in life don't forget to look at the little things. It is a poet's work to see the incidental, pluck it, place an appropriate silence around both sides and see the profound in what passes for a passing moment. It is an artist's job to as much discover art as create it. Prayer is a way of making the common profound by pausing, tying knots around a moment, turning our life into a string of pearls.

people can say all kinds of things without ever opening their mouths...

once death had settled upon a man or woman, there was much to remember but little more to say or do.

And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.

Adeline, who is the girl that she once was, the bright Victorian girl shut behind dark paneled doors with her thirteen, fifteen, eighteen years of life and a Greek lexicon. She is the girl stopped in time who could not speak or feel at the side of her dead mother's bed. She keeps the cold, clear information of those days, unclouded by revision or the lies of age.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Even the rickshaw coolie, given, to be on the safe side, double his normal fee, takes the money in grim silence and immediately looks away. It is most uncomfortable to feel oneself as an object of this universal detestation , a mere foreign-devil in fact.

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

What is always speaking silently is the body.

Many things are too delicate to be thought, much less spoken of in words.

Pudoarea e probabil un sentiment de profanare. Prietenia, iubirea, evlavia ar trebui tratate în chip tainic. Ar trebui s? vorbim despre ele doar în clipe rare, intime, s? ne în?elegem în t?cere cu privire la ele - Multe lucruri sunt prea ginga?e spre a fi gândite, ?i mai multe spre a fi rostite.

somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know the sound of her own voice her infinite beauty she's half-notes scattered without rhythm/ no tune sing her sighs sing the song of her possibilities sing a righteous gospel let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.

though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

Önce hiçbir ?ey yoktu. Bütün evren, kelimesiz bir tekdüzelikten ibaretti. Fakat o s?rada kelime icat edilmedi?i için, bu bölümü anlatam?yoruz.

There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.

These things frighten people. It's best not to talk about them." "But, Dad, that's like … like ignoring a fire in the living room because we're all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.

These things frighten people. It's best not to talk about them." "But, Dad, that's like … like ignoring a fire in the living room because we're all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about." "Don't warn Joanne or any of your other friends

This is just more denial: A dumb little game of "If we don't talk about bad things, maybe they won't happen.

This is just more denial: A dumb little game of "If we don't talk about bad things, maybe they won't happen.

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.

a story that must be told never forgives silence