Quotes About Silence

no fundo, no fundo, bem lá no fundo, a gente gostaria de ver nossos problemas resolvidos por decreto a partir desta data, aquela mágoa sem remédio é considerada nula e sobre ela — silêncio perpétuo

We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.

Pensamientos y canciones me invaden continuamente e insisten en acompañarme cuando estoy en silencio, que es la mayor parte del día que no ruedo. Sobre todo canciones. A veces es la misma canción repetida una y otra vez, hasta que mi desesperado cerebro, ejecutando una orden mía, la sustituye por otra que a su vez se repite en bucle y así hasta que me duermo. Una tortura.

Leaving something unnamed makes it quite literally unspeakable: a void, an absence, a taboo.

Fully half the girls had experienced something along a spectrum of coercion to rape. Those stories were agonizing; equally upsetting, only two had previously told another adult what had happened.

Den nya tron är en etisk kamp från början till slut, dock icke en högljudd och förtviflad, utan en glad och segerrik kamp i det tysta.

When you are able to be with a person and there is no need to talk, something has happened.

She'd just spent the last hours engaged in endless small talk. Now, when it mattered so much, she seemed to have no words to say, or even breath to speak them with. All her life she'd always had such trouble with words: finding them and losing them, hoarding them and wasting them.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. George Eliot

Letting go is not about sacrifice, nor does it breed lazy inactivity; it's simply a return to Being. It is a shift from an assertive focus on action and results in a softer, intuitive state where you will "be with," notice, and appreciate what's in the moment with you. It's about moving from noise into silence. When done right, letting go is about centering, and it always leads to your home frequency.

She didn't tell him about the cancer. She didn't want to tell anyone about it. It seemed to make everything worse.

People love to criticise, to say what you should have done, what they would have done, when they usually do nothing at all, for anybody.

Ik hoorde hoe flauw ik klonk. Als iemand die wel praat maar niets zegt.

A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.

I could suddenly get a longing to be in a place where there was only silence. Years might go by and I did not think about it, but that does not mean that I did not long to be there. And now I am here, and it is almost exactly as I had imagined it.

All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it often did. I can say that much. That it often did. I have been lucky. But even then, for instance in the middle of an embrace and someone whispering words in my ear I wanted to hear, I could suddenly get a longing to be in a place where there was only silence.

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose...

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs— To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind, While the touch of Nature's art Harmonizes heart to heart.

The secret strength of things Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome Of Heaven is as a column, rests on thee, And what were thou and Earth and Stars and Sea If to the human mind's imaginings Silence and solitude were Vacancy?

And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea, If to the human mind's imaginings Silence and solitude were vacancy?

silent those sweet lips, Once breathing eloquence That might have soothed a tiger's rage Or thawed the cold heart of a conqueror.

While some say a total shutdown of religions and personal freedoms could never occur in the United States, just remember, the Russian Tzars never realized the impact of the Communist revolution until they were removed. The German people were deceived into thinking Hitler would be a positive leader. In our nation, oppressive and freedom-killing legislation would be the method used to chain targeted groups to the pillar of silence and irrelevance.

I thought without his tongue we'd be back in control! And it worked! His tongue is no more!

I'm not actually going to blow you out of the airlock Roberts. I just need you in a quiet place where you won't blurt out something stupid at the wrong time near the wrong watch.