“Silence is golden when you can lose the gold.”
“[My father] would tell me not to listen to too many words. "The strength of words lies in implementation, otherwise they are meaningless." He himself was a
man of very few words, but whatever he said was enough to make an
impact on me. He explained why, "Too many dialogues scatter and
waste, say a little so that your words are remembered.”
Source: Edhi: A Mirror To The Blind
“Too much silence always creates a negative result. Too much hiding the truth and reality causes refusal if anyone accepts your fake picture; your original one may come under rejection. Be bold, be fair, and direct dialogues to achieve your purpose.”
“No one on the train spoke and no one seemed, knew anyone else. it was as though we were all listening closely to the rattle of the train on the tracks. The lights were dim. I knew then that I was no longer heading directly home.”
Source: Open City
“Sometimes silence, more than words, can provide solutions.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Every moment spent “doing” meant less time for silence or for self and less opportunity for introspection.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“For the one last time, I want to go back,
To the beginning, where it all started,
Not to fix anything,
Not to mend anything,
To detect the force that’s pulling me back and forth,
To look for the string that’s messing with my vulnerabilities,
Not to play around with my haunting memories,
Not to sit around my screaming roars,
But to crush the last resilient chord,
That's stopping me from moving on.”
Source: Muse Buzz
“My grandfather understood the comfort there is in shared silence.”
Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
“In the deepest sense you shall make yourself nothing, become nothing before God, learn to be silent. In this silence is the beginning, which is to seek first God's kingdom”
Source: The Essential Kierkegaard
“When you are quiet, the silence blows against your mind and etches away everything that is soft and unimportant. What is left is what is real: pure awareness and the very hardest questions.”
Source: Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World