Silence QuotesBreaking the silence
Of an ancient pond,
A frog jumped into water
A deep resonance. The day in his hotness,
The strife with the palm;
The night in her silence,
The stars in their calm. Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. A fence to wisdom is silence. Some signs of understanding are: clemency, knowledge, and silence. Silence is one of the doors to wisdom. It brings about love and is evidence for all good. Silence is a door among the doors of wisdom - indeed, silence begets and attracts love, it is the proof of all the beneficiences. A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. Silence will create respect and dignity; justice and fairplay will bring more friends; benevolence and charity will enhance prestige and position; courtesy will draw benevolence; service of mankind will secure leadership and good words will overcome powerful enemies. To restore silence is the role of objects. I feel grateful to the happy chance which forced me to compose freely and in silence, and has thus delivered me from the tyranny of the fingers, so dangerous to thought. Ask the world to reveal its quietude
not the silence of machines when they are still,
but the true quiet by which birdsongs,
trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms
become what they are, and are nothing else. To-day's house makes to-morrows road;
I knew these heaps of stone
When they were walls of grace and might,
The countrys honour, arts delight
That over fountain'd silence show'd
Fame's final bastion. There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now. All silence is.
All emptiness.
And now:
The dawn. He gave me no sign. I was never the sort to receive portents, or to delude myself that I had. Silence was always my portion, in return for my prayers. |


