“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
“It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”
“The beauty of silence can be compared with the rotation of a diamond; the more we rotate silence the more we can realise the many ways we can experience the Lord of the Silence.”
Source: The Lord of the Silence: Experiencing Intimacy With God In This Fast-Paced World
“I knew when not to speak, when not to let myself be heard. Silence was my friend, my twin, the other half of me. Silence was my weapon. Not a blustering gun, but an invisible spider’s web.”
Source: Ancestor Stones
“Now the verandah was so silent I could hear the sound of the raindrops sliding off the leaves.”
Source: Purple Hibiscus
“le soir ramène le silence”
Source: Méditations poétiques