2,656 Quotes About Silence

To think is to have doubt....yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought"....eventually.

My lone silence has the quality of marshmallows, padded with sugary dough, but other people's silence is punctured with pointy, jagged blades.

Every hour of your life that ticks by, there are numerous points and moments when you can choose to pause - and be aware of your mental and physical state. At any given point, you can freeze the flow that is your life, and be fully conscious for a moment.

You are out of the world’s chatter, its corridor echoes, its muttering. Walking: it hits you at first like an immense breathing in the ears. You feel the silence as if it were a great fresh wind blowing away clouds.

In walking, far from any vehicle or machine, from any mediation, I am replaying the earthly human condition, embodying once again man’s inborn, essential destitution. That is why humility is not humiliating: it just makes vain pretensions fall away, and thus nudges us towards authenticity.

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

As long as we take thought, we will continue to matter".

Sometimes I think it's best to say nothing at all, silence cannot be misquoted.

Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.