Quotes About Muted

Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

He said nothing.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

I'm not physically a super expressive person.

In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.

Her screams, as always, were silent.

Un esclavo es aquel que no puede expresar su pensamiento.

She wasn't much of a talker when there was nothing to say.

I can't describe what I'm feeling, she said. To anyone.

we heard a muffled boom

He was a tall, burly, youngish man in plain clothes whose features some freak of heredity had assembled into a perpetual expression of muted alarm, so that to be in his company was like consorting with a man dogged by assassins.

This is Jeremy, he doesn't talk much.

The crowd slowly dispersed in soft, whispering groups, voices muted by the fascination of death that all men carry with them in small pockets deep inside them.

As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.

Life is classified. There is always so much that goes unsaid.

I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.

Quiet is the new loud.

I'm very quiet off stage.

I tend to fly a bit under the radar.

I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.

As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

Jenny looked, as usual, elegant and as fine-drawn as a young doe, but oddly muted, as if she had been outlined in sepia.

what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave.

Muted pain, it turns out, is much worse than clear pain. Clear pain is quantifiable. One can face it, reckon with it, come away braver. There is no way to understand what you cannot feel. No reckoning to be had. It will haunt you forever, make you afraid. Still, they call her this laughable word: Survivor.