silent presence Quotes

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me.

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words.

I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire.

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!