S Quotes
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“Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.”
“Silence is not an effective political strategy, and what we do if we silence the public interest, which is so hard to hear anyway, is that we silence ourselves and then we do not have a democracy.”
“Silence is not empty. It is the presence of everything we have not yet had the stillness to hear.”
Source: The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out
“Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.”
Source: Memory of Water
“Silence is not golden for the mute.”
“Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.”
“Silence is not lost time.”
“Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.”
Source: The complete speaker's handbook
“Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.”
“Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.”
“Silence is not something we enter; it is something we remember.”
Source: The Lost Art of Silence: Awakening to Wonder
“Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything . . . It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. Silence nurtures our nature, our human nature, and lets us know who we are. Left with a more receptive mind and a more attuned ear, we become better listeners not only to nature but to each other. Silence can be carried like embers from a fire. Silence can be found, and silence can find you. Silence can be lost and also recovered. But silence cannot be imagined, although most people think so. To experience the soul-swelling wonder of silence, you must hear it.”
“Silence is not the absence of sound but an environment that amplifies what we usually ignore. When the external noise fades, the whispers inside grow louder. We might hear anxieties we’ve been avoiding, desires we haven’t acknowledged, or sorrow we thought we had neatly tucked away. Silence holds up a mirror, reflecting our inner world back at us without distortion”
“Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a
destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere
arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.”
“silence is not weakness and decency is not pride”
“Silence is not weakness. Boundaries are not rude. Rest is not laziness.”
Source: UNMUTE YOURSELF: Dear 25 Year Old Me, Silence is no longer an option
“Silence is not what I should choose, yet it suits me better than a lie.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“Silence is occasionally a proactive choice, and not merely the inert absence of noise. It can be an act of courage, power unwielded out of sensitivity or respect, or a circle of concentration to reflect and reminisce. A well-timed silence can command a room, spare others needless pain, or be a pregnant pause to preserve a special moment.”
“Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.”
Source: Villette: Easyread Large Edition
“Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.”
“Silence is often a measure of success.”
“Silence is often advantageous.”
“Silence is often mistaken for agreement when it is really survival.”
“Silence is often the best thing to say.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Silence is often the most disciplined and powerful response.”
“Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.”
“Silence is often the wisest reply.”
“Silence is older than speech.
Harmony is older than chaos.
Sound is older than music.
Image is older than reflection.
Energy is older than matter.
Motion is older than space.
Time is older than distance.
Light is older than darkness.
Water is older than rain.
Heat is older than fire.
Air is older than wind.
God is older than nature.”
“Silence is one great art of conversation.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion”
“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”
“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“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 is one of the major contributing factors to people feeling inescapably stuck in their depression, their anxiety, their stress, their fear, their shame. If you’re suffering in silence, you’re not going to find a solution for it, because nobody knows. And we are not capable of getting ourselves out of a lot of these issues that we are facing, mentally and emotionally, particularly in today’s society, by ourselves. We need help. We need each other. We need commmunity. We need a tribe. We need family.”
Source: Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others
“Silence is only awkward if one cannot feel a connection with the other.”
“Silence is only commendable
In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.”
“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
Source: The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
“Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.”
“Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.”
“Silence is our true teacher. Silence is our real Guru. In silence all our doubts are cleared. And in silence is heard the voice of God.”
“Silence is part of the equation and not the final answer in achieving practical wisdom.”
“Silence is polite, but not always.”
“Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.”
Source: The Notebook
“Silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
Source: The Notebook
“Silence is rarely empty. It usually carries the words we were afraid to say.”
Source: The Art of Being Real: A Journey to Honest Living
“Silence is refreshment for the soul.”
“Silence is safer than speech.”
Source: The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings