Franz Wright Quotes

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

There is much to be said for solitude.

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there’s something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it’s not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It’s not like I sit here philosophizing, because I’ve no talent for that. It’s just this thing about silence that’s so wonderful.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.

I love silence.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

Listen to the sound of silence.

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

Silence is the most powerful state.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it.

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.