Silences Quotes

122 quotes by 98 authors

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac
Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. — Andrea Bocelli
If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always… — Nick Cave
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action. — John Henrik Clarke
First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures,… — Elizabeth Bowen
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I… — Aberjhani
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition… — Oswald Chambers
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. — Samuel Beckett
Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences. — Will Youmans
Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker… — Khalil Gibran
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special… — Ivan Illich
An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that… — Charles de Lint
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so… — Charles Caleb Colton
Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences. — Samuel Beckett
So meditation is not really mind-effort. Real meditation is not effort at all. Real meditation is just allowing the mind to have its own way,… — Rajneesh
Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have got in tune… — Rajneesh
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act… — Richard Rohr
If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If it comes only… — Rajneesh
Only a man of inner silences becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very creativity, their very… — Rajneesh

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