Silence Quotes · Page 192

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

— Pauline Oliveros

My silence doesn't mean that I don't have courage to speak, it simply means that I don't have time for those who…

— Bilal Zahoor

“Keegan had never realized how absolute silence could be in the minutes before dawn. Maybe because the expectation of battle filled the…

— Julia Crane

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...…

— Simona Panova

There is always a little TRUTH behind ''mazaak kr raha tha'', A little EMOTION behind ''mujhe koi fark nhi padata'', And a…

— Ashish Prakash

No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a…

— Rajneesh

“I know, the "I" in me, is silent; You have nothing to say either. Heart is down in the mouth, Lips are…

— Asif

“One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one’s actions, and that includes one’s words and silences, yes, one’s silences, because…

— Roberto Bolaño

To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put…

— Mabel Collins

I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like…

— Stefano Gabbana

In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling…

— John Green

When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself.…

— John O'Donohue

“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a…

— Simona Panova

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

— Benjamin Franklin

Trust someone who can see 3 things in you: the sorrow behind your smile, the love behind your anger and the reason…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

You'll know when she reaches her breaking point. She'll no longer argue with you, instead she'll just give you her silence.

— Anonymous

If a person is silent, it does not mean he is not fun. It means life has taught him some lessons which…

— Nishan Panwar

“My heart pounded against my chest, competing with the deafening absence of sound in the air. I'd never known silence like this.”

— Tracy Lane

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a…

— Joyce Carol Oates

You've noticed that same joke told by two different people, once works, and the other time doesn't, simply because how the person…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“It was completely still, not a sound within or outside. As if it was just the two of them, nothing more in…

— Harriet Evans

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the…

— Edward Hoagland

courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead,…

— Elizabeth Samet

When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the Essence or Buddhata is liberated from…

— Samael Aun Weor

There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It…

— Barack Obama

In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering…

— Jamaica Kincaid

This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must…

— Anonymous

“He's already walking away, still avoiding the questions that scare him most. In the silence that follows, all mine are answered.”

— Brian Zepka

Whoever keeps his mouth shut when he realizes that he is wrong is wise and he who holds the mouth even if…

— Vikrant Parsai

My Silence Dosent Mean I FORGOT U My Disappearence Dosent Mean I DONT CARE ABOUT U Coz U R Mine & U…

— Anonymous

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word…

— Toni Morrison

Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of…

— Eric Lange

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole…

— Tennessee Williams

“Silence of the Lambs screenwriter Ted Tally put the art of writing dialogue succinctly: ‘What’s important is not the emotion they’re playing…

— John Yorke

“No matter what happens next, I'm not letting this turn into another two weeks of silence, the entire history of us summed…

— Sarah Ockler

Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said…

— Anne Stevenson

GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for…

— Leonard Cohen