Chatter Quotes

• Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wind, People, Mind

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• Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

  Buster Keaton

  Silence, Monkeys, Silence Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind, The power of Love flows forth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Mind, Flow

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Journey, Endless

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• A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

  Robert McKee

  Art, Silence, Mind

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• It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the
  mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

  Vernon Howard

  Years, Feet, Sensible

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• The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter.

  Mose Allison

  Silence, Idle Chatter, Matter

  "Celebrated Jazz Musician Mose Allison Dies At 89". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 15, 2016.

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• I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Giving, Credit, Want

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• Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

  C. S. Lewis

  Race, Silence, Achievement

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, Scribner

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• Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that wells up from the past, fear of blurting out what we really fear, fear of future repercussions. It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.

  Marion Woodman

  Fear, Future, Healing

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• All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

  Antonin Artaud

  Communication, Teeth, Language

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.549, Univ of California Press

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• We take for granted that we need to take showers, clean our house, and wash our clothes. Yet the mind and its thoughts need cleansing and ordering as much as our bodies. While few of us would consider eating dinner on yesterday's dirty dishes, we think nothing of tackling our problems with yesterdays cluttered minds.... The purpose to any meditation technique is to move beyond the normal contents of our consciousness, empty your mind of its habitual chatter, and concentrate your attention for the purpose of experiencing a higher state

  Anodea Judith

  Dirty, Moving, Thinking

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• Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If you have the wisdom and the courage to go to nature alone, the larger rhythms, the eternal hum, will make itself known all the sooner. When you have found it, it will always be there for you. The peace without will become the peace within, and you will be able to return to it in your heart wherever you find yourself.

  Kent Nerburn

  Nature, Heart, Greatness

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.56, New World Library

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• The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Women, Devil, Tongue

  St Catherine of Siena (2007). “Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Stop the mental chatter about what's wrong and what's not complete. There is a presence of Love that is seeking to express itself through you.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Presence Of Love, Seeking

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Dec 20, 2012

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• What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Endless, Dialogue

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• We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.

  Penelope Lively

  Latin, Museums, Lexicon

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

  John Heider

  Letting Go, People, Attention

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.12, Green Dragon Books

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• If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.

  Carlo Borromeo

  Faith, Inspiration, Wind

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• As soon as the mouth is opened, evils spring forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the branches, or neglect the reality of the 'illusory' world and speak only of Enlightenment. Or else they chatter of cosmic activities leading to transformations, while neglecting the Substance from which they spring--indeed, there is NEVER any profit in discussion.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Spring, Reality, Roots

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• I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it against the witless bellowing of the barracks yard and the witty chatter of the yes-men. I want to hear the rustling of the organ, this deluge of ethereal notes. I need it against the shrill farce of marches.

  Pascal Mercier

  Witty, Men, Silence

  Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.85, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate exercise. You may come out of my play uncertain. You may want to be sure. Look down on that feeling. We’ve got to learn to live with a full measure of uncertainty. There is no last word. That’s the silence under the chatter of our time.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Exercise, Play, Silence

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• It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

  Rene Daumal

  Writing, Goal, Confusion

  Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.21, The Overlook Press

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• She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she was not there. There was no pleasing her, in fact. She had the grace, even at eleven, to know there was no pleasing her. She thought a lot, analytically, about other people's feelings, and had only just begun to realize that this was not usual, and not reciprocated.

  A. S. Byatt

  People, Grace, Feelings

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• And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will dash themselves against the cliffs. One sails alone. That is my ship. It sails into icy caverns where the sea-bear barks and stalactites swing green chairs. The waves rise, their crests curl; look at the lights on the mastheads. They have scattered, they have foundered, all except my ship which mounts the wave and sweeps before the gale and reaches the islands where the parrots chatter and then the creepers.

  Virginia Woolf

  Light, Rocks, Swings

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1307, Delphi Classics

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