Language And Silence Quotes

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

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

Profound music leads us beyond language ... to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence. — Cornel West

Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them. — Faraaz Kazi

All around them people were speaking a language Brown didn't understand; it was like silence with sharp edges in it. — Helen Oyeyemi

She had to possess the courage to enter, through language, states which most people deny or veil with silence. — Adrienne Rich

The only language the ignorant comprehend is "silence. — Bahman Solati

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper. — Terry Tempest Williams

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words. — Swami Dhyan Giten

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

Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence. — Susanna Clarke

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. — Rumi

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words. — Eduardo Galeano

Silence is the language of inertia. — Margaret Heffernan

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn. — Thomas Keating

Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all! — Tina Sequeira

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

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than. — Criss Jami

Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation. — Thomas Keating

It is hard to say anything as true as saying nothing. — Marty Rubin

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence. — Eugene H. Peterson

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart. — Richard Jackson

If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history. — James P. Carse

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech. — Sathya Sai Baba

Super 8 film is the language of silence. — Rebecca McNutt

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. — Anthony Doerr

As was his language so was his life. — Seneca The Younger

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich

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

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be. — Suzanne Vega

When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language ... — John Geddes

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation. — Thomas Keating

In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence — Bei Dao

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

Who never tried to alter my language, but instead learned to translate the meaning behind my silence. — Claire Contreras

We should resume our language to science
and leave the rest to silence — Natasha Tsakos

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation . — Audre Lorde

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence. — Simon Van Booy

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

It is hard to see anything as true as saying nothing. — Marty Rubin

Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation. — Christian Wiman

When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates. — Akshay Vasu

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

The language of understanding is not the words, but the silence. The language of love is not the promise, but the feelings. — Debasish Mridha

Silence is a language not all people understand. — Abdel Halim Boudekhana

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language. — Rumi

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence. — Ramana Maharshi

Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say. — Suman Pokhrel

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots. — Jay Griffiths

To understand the language of love and peace, listen to the silence. — Debasish Mridha

Poetry is the place where language in its silence is most beautifully articulated. Poetry is the language of silence. — John O'Donohue

Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. — Sivananda

The language of nature is silence. — Bryant McGill

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. — George Steiner

..i spill into
the kind of silence
only Khalil Gibran would understand. — Sanober Khan

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

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

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence. — Joyce Carol Oates

Silence is the language of nature and beauty where perception and feelings are the only reality. — Debasish Mridha

When you are able to understand the language of silence, you will be able to see the beauty of the invisible. — Debasish Mridha

Silence is God's first language. — John Of The Cross

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language. — Ben Kingsley

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language. — Ramana Maharshi

Silence is the only language god speaks. — Charles Simic

Too many women
in too many countries
speak the same language,
of silence ... — Hillary Rodham Clinton

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence. — Michel Foucault

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence. — Elie Wiesel

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language — Hanif Kureishi

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