Explore Quotes on Silence

It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.

A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress - freedom from anger and patient endurance of injuries; and of the perfect - humility, thirst for dishonors, voluntary craving for involuntary afflictions, non- condemnation of sinners, compassion even beyond one's strength. The first are acceptable, the second laudable; but blessed are those who hunger for hardship and thirst for dishonor, for they shall be filled with the food whereof there can be no satiety.

Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.

Last night_x000D__x000D_ I begged the Wise One to tell me_x000D__x000D_ the secret of the world._x000D__x000D_ Gently, gently, he whispered,_x000D__x000D_ "Be quiet,_x000D__x000D_ the secret cannot be spoken,_x000D__x000D_ It is wrapped in silence."

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don't run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. You have a problem? Great. More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,_x000D__x000D_Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,_x000D__x000D_Here once the embattled farmers stood,_x000D__x000D_And fired the shot heard round the world._x000D__x000D_The foe long since in silence slept;_x000D__x000D_Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;_x000D__x000D_And Time the ruined bridge has swept_x000D__x000D_Down the dark stream which seaward creeps._x000D__x000D_On this green bank, by this soft stream,_x000D__x000D_We set to-day a votive stone;_x000D__x000D_That memory may their deed redeem,_x000D__x000D_When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

Go into seclusion and rest your mind on the silence.

And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you're looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.