#silence

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her. ↗

— Michael Ende

#great #great silence #her #herself #listen

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. ↗

— Epictetus

#keep #most #must #only #part

Silence is safer than speech. ↗

— Epictetus

#silence #speech #than

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud. ↗

— Wes Borland

#brand new #discussions #down #funniest #good

Silence is true wisdom's best reply. ↗

— Euripides

#reply #silence #true #wisdom

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#frightening #only #people #silence #who

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing. ↗

— Edie Falco

#argument #because #been #cold #did

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing. ↗

— James Broughton

#being #die #everything #free #good

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it. ↗

— Martin Buber

#cannot #conflict #his #just #man

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. ↗

— John Cage

#cannot #empty #empty space #fact #hear