All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.
Silent - Silence Quotes
If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it.
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
There can be no power without mystery. There must always be a ‘something’ which others cannot altogether fathom, which puzzles them, stirs them, and rivets their attention… Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the […]
If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
A properly kept silence is a beautiful thing; it is nothing less than the father of very wise thoughts.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
At a certain point you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time, you hear it: there is nothing there. There is nothing but those things only, those created objects, […]
