Silence Is Quotes - Page 17

• Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

  Pat Summitt

  Communication, Silence, Less Is More

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.192, Crown Business

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• The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.

  Michael Card

  Space, Silence, Encounters

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• Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.

  Sally Quinn

  Silence, Important, Our Lives

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life. ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.

  Radka Donnell

  Art, Quilts, Silence

  Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns

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• Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Silence, Bliss

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• Stillness empowers. Being able to detach from all external stimulants - social media, social engagements, TV, alcohol, food, etc. - and face our own silence is an enormous luxury that should not be taken for granted. The most rewarding moments in my life have stemmed from such stillness.

  Romany Malco

  Taken, Media, Luxury

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.

  Warsan Shire

  Eye, Air, Silence

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• Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose.

  Ernestine Rose

  Hands, Giving, Silence

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• When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to the great white throne. For them Gethsemane is as paradise. God fills it with sacred presences; its solemn silence is broken by the music of tender promises, its awful darkness softened and brightened by the sunlight of Heavenly faces and the music of angel wings.

  Frederic Farrar

  Friday, Children, Lying

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• Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Perfect, Silence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.192, Harvard University Press

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• Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Rivers, Silence

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 18: "The Three Fish", p. 196, 1995.

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• As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to all men, at all times, and in all places. She is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly. Creation has not displaced her, but is her visible framework and foil. All sounds are her servants, and purveyors, proclaiming not only that their mistress is, but is a rare mistress, and earnestly to be sought after.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Men, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau (1977). “The portable Thoreau”, Penguin

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• The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

  Adrienne Rich

  Real, Tunnels, Voice

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.78, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.

  Howard Nemerov

  Science, Silence, Shining

  Howard Nemerov (1978). “Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays”

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• The silence is death.
  It comes each day with its shock
  to sit on my shoulder, a white bird,
  and peck at the black eyes
  and the vibrating red muscle
  of my mouth.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, White, Bird

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

  Lewis Carroll

  Opportunity, Silence, Golden

  Lewis Carroll (1979). “The Letters of Lewis Carroll: ca. 1837-1885”

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• I take out little moments of silence before or after they sing, because I just love those weird pauses.

  Ryan Hemsworth

  Silence, Littles, Moments

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.

  Sarah Siddons

  Cheer, Order, Voice

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• Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Music, Home, Silence

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Fashion, Real, Communication

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• Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

  Maxim Gorky

  Simple, Silence, Speak

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “Twenty-Six and One: And Other Stories”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!

  Blake Lewis

  Silence, Noise, Golden

  "What Are You Doing This Weekend?: Bshorty Farewell Party with KJ Sawka + Ra Scion + Joe Doria" by Aja Pecknold, Seattle Weekly, June 04, 2007.

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• The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.

  Leon Redbone

  Silence, Important, Notes

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• Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

  Sanford Meisner

  Silence, Absence, Theater

  Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.29, Vintage

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• Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Writing, Silence

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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