Quotes on Silent

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Laws are silent in time of war.

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.

Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought. To experience the beauty of the flower you have to be in a state of meditation, not in a state of mentation. You have to be silent, utterly silent, not even a flicker of thought - and the beauty explodes, reaches to you from all directions. You are drowned in the beauty of a sunrise, of a starry night, of beautiful trees.

The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she will never become a saint. Let her not delude herself - unless it is the Spirit of God who is speaking through her, for then she must not keep silent. But, in order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence in one's soul and to keep silence; not a gloomy silence but an interior silence; that is to say, recollection in God.

Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must celebrate. After you have been silent you must enjoy it, you must have a thanksgiving. A deep gratitude must be shown towards the whole just for the opportunity that you are, that you can meditate, that you can be silent, that you can laugh.