No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.
Interpretation
A well-timed pause can have a profound emotional impact on people.
This quote underscores the significance of timing in communication, particularly how a moment of silence or a definitive end can affect the dynamics of human emotions. It suggests that just as a full stop in a sentence can change its meaning entirely, the pauses in our interactions can convey deep feelings that words alone may not express.
In practice
During a public speech, this quote could be used to emphasize the power of silence after delivering an impactful statement.
The orange sky is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fluttering above our heads. The stench of yesterday’s blood and slaughtered horses drips into the evening chill.
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.
We (Muslims) have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realise that it was the negligence of the Muslims - and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam - that caused our present decay.
Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.
We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.
I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?
Choice is the engine of our evolution ... if you choose unconsciously, you will evolve unconsciously. If you choose consciously, you will evolve consciously
Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling clearly, and in a way, it pushes you to become present in the present.
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