Silence Quotes - Page 8

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 - and speak in such a way that people will remember it.

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.

If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.

The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run.

I am so exhausted and bored of my life. I should try something extreme, it must promise a lot of fear and pain but end with eternal silence, like suicide.

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

Listen to your heart in silence and peace, as through fear you only channel fear.

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

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.

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

A nervous silence loosens tongues

For 1,300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.

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

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

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

When you are silent you are again beautiful.