Best 3011 quotes in «silence quotes» category

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts.

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.

Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.

loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.

Lure him out. Send in a 'customer' with a message from me needing to meet him. I'm not the kind of person he can ignore-well, that he used to not-never mind. Once he's out, we can get him to a place we choose." I nodded. "I can do that." "No," said Dimitri. "You can't." "Why not?" I asked, wondering if he thought it was too dangerous for me. "Because they'll know you're a dhampir the instant they see you. They'll probably smell it first. No Strigoi would have a dhampir working for him-only humans." There was an uncomfortable silence in the car. "No!" said Sydney. "I am not doing that!

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption.

Male silence is not the same as listening

Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.

Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence. The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize. Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something created for its own sake.

Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.

May my silences become more accurate.

Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.

Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.

Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its purity. It is a great silence and a great joy to be there, and once you start abiding there, there is no death and no time. All fear, all greed, all anger, disappears: one is just there with no idea, no desire.

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it.... [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your inner silences, or a painting, it has a flavor which is not of this world.

Meditation is the only way you can grow. Because when you meditate, you are in silence, you are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of awareness takes place.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

May your voice be loving enough to silence your own fears.