Quotes
Quotes about Silence
I played a blank tape on full volume. The mime who lived next door complained. So I shot him with a gun with a silencer.
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
Towers of silence.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. â¢Robert Fripp There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,-- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on Unfathomed and resistless. God hath set His rainbow on thy forehead: and the cloud Mantled around thy feet. And He doth give Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally--bidding the lip of man Keep silence--and upon thine altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that holds the tiger.
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
We two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years.
There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience and tears.
So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.
Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground but holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.
