Silence Quotes

3932 Silence quotes by 2066 unique authors

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear. — Unknown Author
Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into… — David Steindl-Rast
.. every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this [Rumi's] poetry to… — Andrew Harvey
The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things... — David Spangler
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. — Susan Griffin
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. — William Dean Howells
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. — William Wordsworth
No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence. — Samuel Beckett
Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are… — Nhat Hanh
This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in… — Unknown Author
In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our… — Jean Klein
Things that are real are given and received in Silence. God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His… — Meher Baba
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins to shine forth,… — Ken Wilber
In Silence there is eloquence. — Unknown Author
Everybody knows from his own experience that after laughter, good laughter, a belly laugh, you almost feel that you have taken an ice-cold shower; a… — Rajneesh
Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation. — Rajneesh
To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a… — Rajneesh
Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert to the wind… — Rajneesh
By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless awareness. You need… — Rajneesh
Meditation doesn't lead you to silence; meditation only creates the situation in which the silence happens. And this should be the criterion - that whenever… — Rajneesh
Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening… — Rajneesh
It's funny how we feel so much but we don't say a word, we're screaming inside but we can't be heard. — Wiz Khalifa

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