silent

Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak.

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.

Make no mistake about it. We are born blind, deaf, and mute. It is neither these eyes that give us sight, nor these ears that give us sound. It is not even these lips that give us voice. It is only love. Love makes us seek beauty and truth. Love yearns to connect. To experience. To understand. So close your eyes at once. Don__ utter a word. Perk up your ears and listen to that silent sound inside you where all this is found.

All you could do was hope for silence, for still air.

Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bombs. Let the silence rise from empty bellies and surge from broken hearts. The silence of the hidden and forgotten. The silence of the abused and tortured. The silence of the persecuted and imprisoned. The silence of the hanged and massacred. Loud as all the sounds can be, let my silence be loud so the hungry may eat my words and the poor may wear my words. Loud as all the sounds can be, let my silence be loud so I may resurrect the dead and give voice to the oppressed. My silence speaks.

Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.

Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.