Best Silence Is Quotes

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

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

Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

Silence is the most intolerable of answers.

Silence is worse when you know it won’t be broken.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

Silence… is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

Silence is so important when you’re working, You must have periods where you don’t hear anything, just to reflect on you’ve already done. Otherwise you traumatize your relationship with the piece that you’re working on.

The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

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

The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language.

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

Silence isn’t golden. It’s yellow.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

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.

This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment.
All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it.
It doesn’t know where to find it.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are so accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. If we are silent, who will take control? God will take control, but we will never let him take control until we trust him. Silence is intimately related to trust.

Silence ‘is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the voice of God. In this time of preparation for Christmas, let us cultivate interior recollection so as to receive and keep Jesus in our lives.’