Silence Quotes - Page 29

• A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

  Robert Breault

  Women, Winning, Argument

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• By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Gaps, Window

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• The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.

  Rajneesh

  Technology, Missing, Joy

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• Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you see the thoughts, you can make a conscious choice to act on the thought or change your mind, instead of going along with the noise. I have seen people who don't want to look at themselves keep going until something happens that makes them stop — a sickness or an accident — but it gives them that reflective, quiet space where they can face what is difficult in their mind. We each have a unique purpose to fulfill in this life and inklings can come in those quiet moments.

  Sivananda Radha Saraswati

  Unique, Quiet Moments, Space

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• Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shame, Discourse, Silence Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1387, Delphi Classics

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• Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grateful, Eggs, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.369, University of Georgia Press

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• The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

  Joyce Maynard

  Stories, Wanted

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• A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two

  Chaim Potok

  Two, Coins, Silence Is

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

  Saint Augustine

  Reflection, Looks, Littles

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• A story that must be told never forgives silence.

  Okey Ndibe

  Forgiving, Stories, Never Forgive

  Okey Ndibe (2016). “Never Look an American in the Eye: A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American”, p.189, Soho Press

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• Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world. Take them away and those voices turn inwards or vanish. Turns out that libraries have nothing at all to do with silence.

  Bella Bathurst

  Children, Powerful, Book

  "The secret life of libraries" by Bella Bathurst, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• Noise: a stench in the ear.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ears, Noise

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.732, Library of America

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• It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and between the splashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death. All nature suffers in such moments; the trees writhe in pain and twist their heads; the birds of the fields cower under the bushes; the streets of cities are deserted.

  Alfred de Musset

  Pain, Rain, Men

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.45, tredition

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• The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.

  David Duke

  Block, Media, Ku Klux Klan

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• During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence

  Edith Hahn Beer

  Butterfly, Night, Long

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• Listen to the silence... it has much to say.

  Susan Jeffers

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to stand in silence-alone and in silence-you have to stand on the naked earth, naked yourself and with nothing around you, as if you were already dead. You don't hear anything at first; the only thing you feel is terror, but then you begin to hear a voice, away in the background, far off; it's a calm voice, and maybe its banality gets on your nerves to begin with.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Voice, Naked, Nerves

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• Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.

  Allen Tate

  Friendship, Gathering, Would Be

  Allen Tate (1967). “T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work”, London : Chatto & Windus

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• Experience yourself in silence.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Experience Yourself, Meditation

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• I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like a star, my Baby's face. .... I will take up my work once more, As if I had never laid it down. Who will dream that I ever wore, In triumph, motherhood's sacred crown? .... Nevertheless, the way is long, And tears leap up in the light of the sun. I'd give my world for a cradle-song, And a kiss from Baby?only one.

  Mary C. Ames

  Dream, Song, Baby

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• Come to me in the silence of the night,
  Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream.
  Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright as sunlight on a stream.
  Come back in tears,
  O memory, hope, love of finished years.

  Christina Rossetti

  Dream, Memories, Eye

  'Echo'

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• It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

  Hermann Hesse

  School, House, Sound

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• Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap, - You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat.... Look! look! that livid flash! And instantly follows the rattling thunder, As if some cloud-crag, split asunder, Fell, splintering with a ruinous crash, On the Earth, which crouches in silence under; And now a solid gray wall of rain Shuts off the landscape, mile by mile.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wall, Rain, Heart

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• Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His battle-song, - One quivering flash, One wildering crash, Followed by silence dead and dull, As if the cloud, let go, Leapt bodily below To whelm the earth in one mad overthrow, And then a total lull.

  James Russell Lowell

  Letting Go, Song, Rain

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

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• In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Skins

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