Silence Is Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."

  Luther Standing Bear

  Meaningful, Native American, Space

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• Silence is a protective coating over pain.

  E. Lockhart

  Pain, Silence, Protective

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.45, Delacorte Press

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• Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

  Claude Debussy

  Dance, Silence, Steps

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• True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects - people, nature, emotions - may or may not appear. Objects are not needed and they are welcomed. The joy of this full silence is uncaused and unlimited. Always here, always discovering itself. It is the treasure, and it is hidden only when we refuse to keep quiet and find out who we are.

  Gangaji

  Simple, People, Joy

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• Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.

  Martha Grimes

  Silence, Way, Okay

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• Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Silence, Speech

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from May 18, 2012

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• Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.

  Ron McLarty

  Silence, Way, Sometimes

  Ron McLarty (2007). “Traveler”, p.65, Penguin

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• The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me.

  Karl Rahner

  Silence, Dying, Trying

  Karl Rahner (1980). “The Heart of Rahner”, Burns & Oates

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• I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

  Zell Miller

  Believe, Yellow, Silence

  Zell Miller (2005). “Zell Miller A Senator Speaks Out on Patriotism Values and Character”, p.49, Xulon Press

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• There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

  Gregory Bateson

  Music, Silence, Listening

  Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson (1987). “Angels fear: towards an epistemology of the sacred”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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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 nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Morning, Silence

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• Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Silence, Weakness

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• If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.

  Keith Jarrett

  Silence, Sound, Should

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• True silence is really endless speech.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Silence, Speech, Endless

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

  Pindar

  Men, Silence, Heed

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• Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Silence, Argument, Weak

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• It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Silence, Difficult

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• The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs to avoid, at all costs, the voice inside her head that would point her toward her calling and her destiny. So she seeks distraction. The amateur prizes shallowness and shuns depth. The culture of Twitter and Facebook is paradise for the amateur.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivational, Destiny, Two

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• Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

  Ihab Hassan

  Integrity, Silence, Excellence

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• Silence is a place of great power and healing.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Silence, Great Power

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2001). “My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging”, p.211, Penguin

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• unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Family, Silence, Unhappy

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2011.

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• Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

  Michelle Malkin

  Silence, Speak, Surrender

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• The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Waiting

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