Franz Kafka Quotes

Silence is so accurate.

I aspire only to silence.

I love silence.

I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.

'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.

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.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Listen to the sound of silence.

Silence is the most powerful state.

My hobby is silence.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

Take time to be quiet.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: This hum is the silence.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

In many other cultures, and certainly in the Eastern world, there's great value put on being, contemplating, and even withdrawing from the world at certain times or for certain periods of time. But we don't really have that in our culture, so it's difficult for many Westerners to learn how to sit down or lie down and just be quiet without going to sleep. We're just not trained to do it.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.