Quotes on Silence Is

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.

You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.

Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not think....In silence, we might better say, we can hear someone else think.

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.