silence

It is the disaster of our entire existence that we live thus away from our soul, and stand in such dread of its slightest movement. Did we but allow it to smile frankly in its silence and its radiance, we should be already living an eternal life. We have only to think for an instant how much it succeeds in accomplishing during those rare moments when we knock off its chains _ for it is our custom to enchain it as though it were distraught _ what it does in love, for instance, for there we do permit it at times to approach the lattices of external life.

As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.

It is a thing that knows no limit, and before it all men are equal; and the silence of king or slave, in presence of death, or grief, or love, reveals the same features, hides beneath its impenetrable mantle the self-same treasure. For this is the essential silence of our soul, our most inviolable sanctuary, and its secret can never be lost;

The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.

The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same.

When you are able to understand the language of silence, you will be able to see the beauty of the invisible.

But silence continued in the layers of the earth, and this density that I could feel at my shoulders continued harmonious, sustained, unaltered through eternity. I lay there pondering my situation, lost in the desert, and in danger, naked between sky and sand and stars, withdrawn by too much silence from the poles of my life.

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silenceso far, without spilling a drop.

Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for__OU.

You must be more alive than life.You must see darkness danceand hear silence sing.You must be more awake than lightfor we aren__ born sleepingand we shouldn__ live sleeping.Only then will death__ slumberbecome sweet.

Silence is the most expensive to buy.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

A man should never miss an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.