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Silence Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen
- As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged…
- In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can…
- This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was very young. I…
- In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.
- Silence is a place of great power and healing.
- The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each…
- Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken…
More Silence Quotes
- I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. — Karen Armstrong
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. — Francis Bacon
- Silence is the virtue of fools. — Francis Bacon
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac
- First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil
- Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. — Samuel Beckett
- Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. — Samuel Beckett
- My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around… — Adele
- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley