Top 1200 Sitting In Silence Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.

At times we feel something is going to pierce the silence we are living in; after a while we realize it's the silence.

Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.

No one should ever suffer in silence. Bullies thrive in silence.

Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

A person truly evolves from his own silence and one such can keep the people around him in the awe of silence.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

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

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.

Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence.' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that is. Silence.

There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things.

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.

It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.

Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.

The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

Back in the day, prior to rock and roll, music halls, concert venues were segregated if they allowed black people in at all. You know, there were ropes that went around the sitting sections with signs hanging that would say, 'Sitting for white patrons only,' or 'Colored sitting only.'

Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.

Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.

We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.

Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative silence blurs and confuses our identity, and we lapse into daydreams or diffuse anxieties. Positive silence pulls us together and makes us realize who we are, who we might be, and the distance between these two.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.