Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world.
—Jack Kerouac
Solitude is for me a fount of healing
which makes my life worth living.
Talking is often a torment for me,
and I need many days of silence
to recover from the futility
of words.
—Carl Jung
Bow down in silence to the earth,
to the trees, to the moon, to the sun.
It does not matter what the object is,
what matters is bowing down –
surrender, that feeling of gratitude.
Wherever one is full of gratitude,
there is a temple.
—Osho
Listen, my child, to the silence.
An undulating silence,
a silence
that turns valleys and echoes slippery,
that bends foreheads
toward the ground.
—Federico García Lorca
What kind of times are these when a conversation about trees is almost a crime because it implies silence about so many atrocities.
--Bertolt Brecht
The desire to break the silence
with constant human noise is, I
believe, precisely an avoidance
of the sacred terror of that
divine encounter.
--Matsuo Basho
I believe silence can be an excellent way of being intimate with ourselves and others
Great collection of quotes.