Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

I am interested in silences

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

Speech is the small change of silence.

You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

Go to where the silence is and say something.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

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

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

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