What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.
There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Silence sweeter is than speech.
Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.
Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.
Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.
The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.
You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.
Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.
Modern man has lost the option of silence.
Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.
One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.
Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.
I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.
External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!
Silent guns have virtue.
Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.
The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.
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