Top 1200 Vow Of Silence Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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

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

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

A vow is a snare for sin

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.

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

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

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

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.

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

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

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

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

I vow to live fully in each moment.

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.

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

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

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Take a vow for a life of service to others.

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

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

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

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

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

I took a vow of political celibacy.

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

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

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

The word of God is my vow.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.