Top 1200 Long Silence Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

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

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.

I've put everything in my rearview mirror and I've continued to silence people. That's how I'm going to... continue to be happy living my life. And in the process, I silence haters.

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.

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

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

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.

Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate

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

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

I've always worked a lot with silence in my films. It forces the audience to concentrate on what they're seeing, because silence is pure emotions. It has no logic; it goes straight to the heart.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Freediving is about silence...the silence that comes from within.

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

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.

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

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

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.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

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

If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.

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.

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.

There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence and solitude is to be able to see and hear. Control rather than no noise is the key to silence. James saw clearly that the person who could control his tounge is perfect (James 3:1-12). Under the Discipline of silence and solitude we learn when to speak and when to refrain from speaking.

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

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

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.

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

It's definitely been a long, long... long, long, long, long, long journey since I was selling burnt CD's out of my backpack in downtown Oakland.