Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. —George Eliot More about this quote Tags: silence communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Both speech and silence transgress. —Zen saying More about this quote Tags: silence speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: relationships silence people conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence. The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize. Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something created for its own sake. —Max Picard More about this quote Tags: silence nature animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. —Robert Benchley More about this quote Tags: silence speech English Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The less you talk, the more you're listened to. —Pauline Phillips More about this quote Tags: silence speech talk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. —Josh Billings More about this quote Tags: power silence argument refutation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This love is silent. —T. S. Eliot More about this quote Tags: love silence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a difference between saying goodbye and letting go. Goodbye is not permanent. You can meet years later and share what happened in your life. You can smile and laugh about all the nonsense that you both went through. However, letting go is being okay with never seeing this person ever again…being okay with never knowing how their life turned out…being okay with fifty or more years of silence…being okay with running into that person at a grocery store and having them not acknowledge your presence. This is the part of life that doesn't sit well with me and never will. It tears my heart in pieces, robs me of gratitude, drains me of anything positive and eats at the faith that holds on. —Shannon L. Alder More about this quote Tags: life silence gratitude presence knowledge man will art seeing heart good faith tears goodbye Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. —George Steiner More about this quote Tags: reality silence language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is my intention to make my entire life a rejection of, a protest against the crimes and injustices of war and political tyranny which threaten to destroy the whole race of [humankind] and the world with [it] . . . . I make monastic silence a protest against the lies of politicians, propagandists, and agitators, and when I speak it is to deny that my faith and my church can ever be aligned with these forces of injustice and destruction. But it is true, nevertheless, that the faith in which I believe is also invoked by many who believe in war, believe in racial injustices, believe in self-righteous and lying forms of tyranny. My life must, then, be a protest against these also, and perhaps against these most of all. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: justice war humanity politics life silence rejection church crime protest faith lies racism tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't think, in our kind of society, we'll be able to develop a full-blown mystical religion or concept of God because we seek instant gratification, fast food, endless talk and noise. The silence in mysticism is alien. People want to do a few courses in mysticism, rather like the way you do French before going on holiday, and emerge a mystic. Mysticism isn't like that. —Karen Armstrong More about this quote Tags: God religion silence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. —Napoleon Bonaparte More about this quote Tags: silence promises Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: solitude love silence gentleness brotherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The kindest word in the world is the unkind word, unsaid. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: kindness silence speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email