S Quotes
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“Silence is a cage. These words are my wings.”
“Silence is a collective abbreviation for a whole array of musical absences: the absence of sound, sounds never made, the absence of those who should have made them, sounds too quiet to be heard, sounds delayed or postponed indefinitely. Silence is the opposite of music, but it is also its lifeblood -- the breaths between the phrases, the drama, the anticipation, and the quality of the breathless hush between final note and applause. Music embraces calm silences, pregnant silences, animated or aggressive silences. Musical silence can be temporal, gestural, or spatial. In some cases, such as John Cage's famously curated silence, '4 Minutes 33 Seconds,' silence even -becomes- music. Without sound there cannot be silence, and vice versa.”
Source: Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
“Silence is a 'contingent' phenomenon with positive or negative qualities. When it has to be assessed it needs to be 'contextualized' by exploring its background.”
“Silence is a deadly weapon”
“Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers
“Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.”
Source: Reach for the Summit
“Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.”
“silence is a foxhole”
Source: boy
“Silence is a frightening thing. Silences leaves us at the mercy of the noise within us. We hear the fears that need to be faced. We hear, then, the angers that need to be cooled. We hear the emptiness that needs to be filled. We hear the cries for humility and reconciliation and centeredness. We hear ambition and arrogance and attitudes of uncaring awash in the shallows of the soul. Silence demands answers. Silence invites us to depth. Silence heals what hoarding and running will not touch.”
Source: Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today
“Silence is a girls loudest cry”
“Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!”
“Silence is a great answer to nonsense, but not always that may be suitable.”
“Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“Silence is a great source of strength.”
Source: The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age
“Silence is a great way to speak with the weirdest dumb and deaf people”
“Silence is a language everyone speaks, but not everyone can understand it.”
Source: Quantraz
“Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all!”
Source: SOUL SOJOURN
“Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.”
Source: Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul
“Silence is a lie that screams at the light.”
“Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie."”
“Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!”
“Silence is a place of great power and healing.”
Source: My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
“Silence is a powerful tool.”
Source: I'll Be Seeing You
“Silence is a practice of emptying, of letting go. It is a process of hollowing ourselves out so we can open to what is emerging. Our work is to make ourselves receptive. The organ of receiving is the human heart, and it is here that we feel the deep ache of loss, the bittersweet reminders of all that we loved, the piercing artifacts of betrayal, and the sheer truth of impermanence. Love and loss, as we know so well, forever entwined.”
Source: The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
“Silence is a prince's friend.”
Source: A Feast for Crows
“Silence is a privilege of freedom, yet freedom without peace is a torture to silence.”
“Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.”
“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”
Source: We Were Liars
“Silence is a rare commodity. Is it possible to find silence in the midst of today’s noisy world?”
Source: The Lord of the Silence: Experiencing Intimacy With God In This Fast-Paced World
“Silence is a sea whereas words are a river.”
Source: Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily”
“Silence is a source of great strenght.”
“Silence is a source of Great Strength.”
“Silence is a space of “becoming,” a span between commotion and interior stillness, a canvas that reveals the outlines of our memories and our inner selves. ("Only silence remained")”
“Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.”
“Silence is a still noise.”
Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
“Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.”
Source: Alamein to Zem Zem
“Silence is a temple of wisdom,
stillness is a temple of joy,
and harmony is a temple of love.
Humility is a temple of wisdom,
contentment is a temple of joy,
and peace is a temple of love.
Intelligence is a temple of wisdom,
understanding is a temple of joy,
and virtue is a temple of love.
The past is a temple of wisdom,
the present is a temple of joy,
and the future is a temple of love.
The mind is a temple of wisdom,
the heart is a temple of joy,
and the soul is a temple of love.
The world is a temple of wisdom,
the cosmos is a temple of joy,
and the universe is a temple of love.
Heaven is a temple of wisdom,
nature is a temple of joy,
and God is a temple of love.”
“Silence is a text easy to misread.”
Source: The Eagle and the Sword
“Silence is a time of reflection to bring peace and meaning to your life, and to those around you. This deafening quiescence will mean different things to different people but if they listen carefully, they will understand...”
“Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.”
“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
“Silence
Is a verse with layers-
Opening of every layer,
Drops some pearls of wisdom noiselessly.
To receive those pearls,
Your mind has to be completely ready-
It can’t waver!”
Source: Rhyming with Life
“Silence is a virgin mountain
Rarely visited by humans,
For it’s impossible to
Discover the paths
Leading to its peak-
And a man is but a conqueror!”
Source: Rhyming with Life
“Silence is a virtue in those who are deficient in understanding.”
“Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.”
“Silence is a weapon in war, breathing determines who wins.”
“Silence is about rediscovering, through pausing, am i correct? It is silence that I am able to hear God best in silence.”
“Silence is about rediscovering, through pausing, the things that bring us joy.”