The Language Of Silence Quotes

#1. We switch to another language
not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.

David Levithan

#2. When you are able to understand the language of silence, you will be able to see the beauty of the invisible.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Super 8 film is the language of silence.

Rebecca McNutt

#4. In silence, our senses come alive...
We see the beauty around us more clearly, learn to listen to the language of silence, touch and smell the earth so pure and taste the sweetness of the air we breathe.

Margo Vader

#5. Poetry is the place where language in its silence is most beautifully articulated. Poetry is the language of silence.

John O'Donohue

#6. If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history.

James P. Carse

#7. Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.

Sathya Sai Baba

#8. He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken words exist in the mind first and then go to the voice and sit temporarily inside ears, and if words are conveyed through sign language, they exist in the motion of hands.

Rita Leganski

#9. The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

Audre Lorde

#10. The proper use of language, for me personally, is one that enables us to approach things (present or absent) with discretion, attention, and caution, with respect for what things (present or absent) communicate without words.

Italo Calvino

#11. The language of nature is silence.

Bryant McGill

#12. God's true language: Hebrew. Latin. Arabic. Sanskrit.

As if utterance fit into the requirements of the human mouth.

I learned how to find the new moon by looking for the circular absence of stars. [...]

I learned God's true language is only silence and breath.

Kazim Ali

#13. Silence is the language of the cosmos. From the smallest stone to the sun itself, they all communicate through silence, greatly rich with meaning and deep, very deep. In order to understand it, we need to have a special mind.

Anu Lal

#14. Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say.

Suman Pokhrel

#15. Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

Ramana Maharshi

#16. Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Octavio Paz

#17. Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

Marianne Wiggins

#18. Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

Terry Tempest Williams

#19. Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

Rumi

#20. Too many women
in too many countries
speak the same language,
of silence ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#21. By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.

Octavio Paz

#22. Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation.

Christian Wiman

#23. ..i spill into
the kind of silence
only Khalil Gibran would understand.

Sanober Khan

#24. I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

Michel Foucault

#25. To understand the language of love and peace, listen to the silence.

Debasish Mridha

#26. The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.

John Main

#27. Such avian silence is punctuated only by the occasional plunk of a trout sinking an ovipositioning daddy longlegs, and the hysterical cackle of a Mallard that finally gets last night's joke.

Bruce Beckham

#28. I'll leave the way of words to walk the wood I'll be the forest's man, and greet the sun, And feel the silence blossom on my tongue like language.

Neil Gaiman

#29. Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.

Margaret Cho

#30. They say the silence is the language of God, but so is music. This is why we dance, we become loud in our silence.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#31. Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don't ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.

Elif Shafak

#32. But even in the schoolyard I'd been aware of that silence, that reserve in him, as though he'd been raised by foxes and language was his second language.

Patricia A. McKillip

#33. Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it's understood.

Yasmin Mogahed

#34. Silence is the language of nature and beauty where perception and feelings are the only reality.

Debasish Mridha

#35. The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

Simon Van Booy

#36. When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

Ramana Maharshi

#37. The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#38. The language of the universe comes not from the voice but from the primordial silence. You can understand it by enhancing your feelings.

Debasish Mridha

#39. Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought ... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

Clarice Lispector

#40. Silence is God's first language.

John Of The Cross

#41. The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.

Stephen D. Krashen

#42. The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

Joyce Carol Oates

#43. Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

Eduardo Galeano

#44. Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

Susan Sontag

#45. Silence is the language of inertia.

Margaret Heffernan

#46. Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

Richard Jackson

#47. There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Meister Eckhart

#48. Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

George Steiner

#49. Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart.

Sivananda

#50. Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

Amit Ray

#51. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Audre Lorde

#52. Universal violence compels the language to be mute ... Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

Ihab Hassan

#53. Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

Ramana Maharshi

#54. Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

Fulton J. Sheen

#55. The language of understanding is not the words, but the silence. The language of love is not the promise, but the feelings.

Debasish Mridha

#56. Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all!

Tina Sequeira

#57. Profound music leads us beyond language ... to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

Cornel West

#58. The moment you are there You know but the moment cannot be explained for it is beyond language and expression. It is a moment of silence, joy, bliss, void, crying, dancing but nothing confirms to normal.

Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

#59. Silence is no weakness of language.
It is, on the contrary, its strength.
It is the weakness of words not to know this.

Edmond Jabes

#60. We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech

William Carlos Williams

#61. The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

Gertrud Von Le Fort