Quotes about Silence

People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence.

People come and go, and even the closest members of the family eventually disperse. It's useless to cling to anybody or anything because everything in the universe tends toward separation, chaos, and entropy, not cohesion. I have chosen a simpler life, with fewer material things and more leisure, fewer worries and more fun, fewer social commitments and more true friendship, less fuss and more silence.

She learned to bear her troubles alone and with dignity, convinced no one was interested in other people's problems, and that pain borne in silence eventually evaporated.

I'm fine here, Lenny. I'm discovering who I am without all my ornaments and accessories. It's quite a slow process, but a very useful one. Everybody ought to do the same at the end of their life. If I had any self-discipline I would beat my grandson to it and write my own memoirs. I have time, freedom, and silence, the three things I never had amidst all the noise of my earlier life. I'm preparing to die.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The fewer the words, the better prayer.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

You lose it if you talk about it.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.

For a long while she only looked at him ... as if she didn't want to interrupt the beautiful moment with words.