silence

_ it is that such of us as have loved deeply have learnt many secrets that are unknown to others; for thousands and thousands of things quiver in silence on the lips of true friendship and love, that are not to be found in the silence of other lips, to which friendship and love are unknown. _

Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. (« A gap of silence_)

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

The longer the silence remains untouched the longer the miscommunication creates its own stories.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

We suffer in silence.

Don't be distracted by the noise going on. Pause & reflect. You'll realize how much time you've wasted on all that nonsense around you.

The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone.

The silence was worse than the gunshots. The wait worse than the confusion. The forebode worsethan any danger.

My truth asked people to understand and to learn about depths of pain they had previously walked past_. I had kept my silence for a reason. - from Without a Voice by Chris Pepple

The Sunday school trip: While us girls were alone, a nasty piece of work called Louise, aged about eleven, decided that it would be a __un_ idea to hang someone over the cliff ... me!

People who live in the night are acquainted with all kinds of quiet. There__ quiet enough to hear the distant traffic. Quiet enough to hear your breathing. Quiet enough to hear a lover__ heartbeat. There__ please-god-don__-let-me-die quiet, and can__-remember-her-name quiet. Is-he-lying quiet and can__-make-rent quiet. There__ the quiet that inspires poets, and quiet that torments the lonely.

We both keep quiet. Again.Today just seems like a day for it. It__ easier that way. You don__ have to say things you don__ want to say because once the words are out, you__l have to confront them.Confront your insecurities. Confront your fears.Confront yourself. I think that one, the last one, is the hardest.

Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all.'Does that scare you?'Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father.'It's like something's waiting.

All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak__nd speak in such a way that people will remember it.