2,656 Quotes About Silence

Law enforcement responding with silence regarding crimes reported by the public is a form of mistreatment.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

Acum cred că înțelegi foarte bine cum ne-ai schimbat viețile, sper să îți găsești liniștea fără mine, așa cum am găsit-o eu fără tine.

. . . I am in my hermitage perhaps 70 to 80 percent of the time. I relish and enjoy time with others. I have been called "the sociable hermit." Ironically, lengthy solitude often invokes a verbal avalanche when I find myself with a dear and treasured friend, or at a rare social occasion. . . . Solitaries, I suppose, are not always introverts.

For the modern solitary, the quest for silence has vastly broader boundaries than what one's predecessors faced. Solitude is real only when it is relative to the world in which it is lived. It is unreal if attempted in fantasy--as though telephones and fax machines, the Internet and E-mail did not exist. (36)

There's just as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words.

When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are a vast emptiness.You can become afraid in meditation, because the deeper you go in meditation, the more you realize that you are nobody, a nothingness. It is a death of the ego. That is why people become afraid of meditation.

Silence is the highest form of meditation.

When we are, love is not.When we are not, love is.