S Quotes
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“Silence is all around us,
Listen and you can hear it loud enough
To wake the unconscious.
Penetrate my soul and you can move
To another dimension,
Silently you can slip through the veil.
Be what you are, the unborn being
That has been unnoticed following you
Every step of the way, to your own Awakening.”
Source: Silence: Angels and Poems
“Silence is all the genius a fool has.”
Source: Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories
“Silence is also a form of speaking.”
“Silence is also a form of speaking. They’re exactly alike. It’s a basic component of language. We’re always selecting what we say and what we don’t. Why do we say one thing and not the other? And we do this instinctively, too, because no matter what we’re talking about, there’s more that doesn’t get said than does. And this isn’t always to hide things—it’s simply part of an instinctive selection in our speech. This selection varies from one person to the next, so that no matter how many people describe the same thing, the descriptions are different, the point of view is different. And even if there is a similar viewpoint, people make different choices as to what is said or not said. This was very clear to me, coming from the village, since the people there never said more than they absolutely needed to. When I was fifteen and went to the city, I was amazed at how much people talked and how much of that talk was pointless. And how much people talked about themselves—that was totally alien to me.
For me, silence had always been another form of communication. After all, you can tell so much just by looking at a person. At home we always knew about each other even if we didn’t talk about ourselves all the time. I encountered a lot of silence elsewhere as well. There was the silence that was self-imposed, because you could never say what you really thought.”
“Silence is also a message.
-Ye Wenjie (tv adaptation)”
“Silence is also conversation.”
“Silence is an answer to a wise man.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.”
“Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.”
“Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.”
Source: Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It
“Silence is an intimate space where the boundaries between memory and reality dissolve. Let it be an invitation to introspection and to shape our identity.
("Only silence remained")”
“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.
When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk
to the language-river. Listen to the ocean,
and bring your talky business
to an end.
Traditional words are just babbling
in that presence, and babbling is a substitute
for sight. When you sit down beside your beloved,
send the chaperones away, the old women
who brought you together.”
Source: The Essential Rumi
“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.”
“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.”
“Silence is an ornament for women.”
Source: Sophocles, Ajax
“Silence is an ornament which is visible from inside. (Le silence est une parure - Qui se voit de l'intérieur)”
“Silence is another element we find in classic fairy tales — girls muted by magic or sworn to silence in order to break enchantment. In "The Wild Swans," a princess is imprisoned by her stepmother, rolled in filth, then banished from home (as her older brothers had been before her). She goes in search of her missing brothers, discovers that they've been turned into swans, whereupon the young girl vows to find a way to break the spell. A mysterious woman comes to her in a dream and tells her what to do: 'Pick the nettles that grow in graveyards, crush and spin them into thread, then weave them into coats and throw them over your brothers' backs.' The nettles burn and blister, yet she never falters: picking, spinning, weaving, working with wounded, crippled hands, determined to save her brothers. All this time she's silent. 'You must not speak,' the dream woman has warned, 'for a single world will be like a knife plunged into your brothers' hearts.'
You must not speak. That's what my stepfather said: don't speak, don't cry, don't tell. That's what my mother said as well, as we sat in hospital waiting rooms -- and I obeyed, as did my brothers. We sat as still and silent as stone while my mother spun false tales to explain each break and bruise and burn. Our family moved just often enough that her stories were fresh and plausible; each new doctor believed her, and chided us children to be more careful. I never contradicted those tales. I wouldn't have dared, or wanted to. They'd send me into foster care. They'd send my young brothers away. And so we sat, and the unspoken truth was as sharp as the point of a knife.”
Source: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
“Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.”
“Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.”
“Silence is autonomous. It is beyond us; our task is to coordinate our being with the greater Being of Silence.”
Source: Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness
“Silence is become his mother tongue.”
“Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish.”
“Silence is better
Because It has tolerance , Encouragemnt , Motivation & Harmony”
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
“Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'”
“Silence is chosen every time there is a positive outcome or to avoid a negative one. We choose silence only when it’s beneficial to us. If we think we have something to win by remaining silent instead of speaking, we will choose to do so.
Silence doesn’t just happen. It’s not a situation when someone has run out of words and stays silent. Silence is carefully and smartly chosen every time there is a beneficial outcome.”
Source: The Silence of the Sheep
“Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.”
“Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose.”
“Silence is death, and you, if you talk, you die, and if you remain silent, you die. So, speak out and die.”
“Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.”
“Silence is deep as Eternity;
Speech is shallow as Time.”
Source: Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
“Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.”
“Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.”
“Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Vol 13 1962-63: A Psychological Revolution
“Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1962-1963): A Psychological Revolution
“Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.”
“Silence is divinity's communion with the individual”
“Silence is essential for deep transformation. It allows the practice of conscious breathing to become deep and effective. Like still water that reflects things as they are, the calming silence helps us to see things more clearly, and therefore, to be in deeper contact with ourselves and those around us.”
“Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.”
“Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.”
Source: Tugman's Passage
“Silence is far more than just the absence of noise and stimuli. It is full and rich, pulsing with possibilities for renewal and growth. One most easily comes face to face with one’s deepest self in silence. When the distractions are gone, the soul sings its song. Silence, stillness, calm - these are the soul’s healing balm.”
“Silence is fine if I am on my own but it's not overly sociable if my husband is around!”
Source: The Radiant Woman's Handbook
“Silence is followed by peace. Peace is followed by the eternal bliss. Eternal bliss is blessed by the love of the divine.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.”
“Silence is fucking golden.”
Source: The Lacetier
“Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.”
“Silence is God's first language.”
“Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.”