Quotes About Silence

but there was no need. For at that

He knew that she could not help him unravel the knot of inarticulacy that he carried inside him. Instead, he could feel it tightening, like a promise of suffocation that shadowed every breath he took.

Eleanor had watched her mother's persecution with the same vivid silence as she experienced in the face of her own gradual disintegration tonight.

Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.

It is perhaps the great discomfort of those trying to silence the world to discover that we have voices sealed inside our heads, voices that with each passing day, grow even louder than the clamor of the world outside.

Our fatigue limited our desire to talk. Besides, each person's story did nothing except bring you closer to your own pain.

I am even more certain that to create dangerously is also to create fearlessly, boldly embracing the public and private terrors that would silence us, then bravely moving forward even when it feels as though we are chasing or being chased by ghosts…

You thought that if you didn't tell the stories, the sky would fall on your head.

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Elle ne se doutait pas qu'il était en train d'adorer sa gaucherie et qu'il gardait le silence pour la faire durer.

Those old hags downstairs were quite nauseating,' she said after another silence. 'I can't think why we stayed there listening to them. (You because you hunger for social contacts, however squalid. Me to lick the pebble of my unhappiness.)

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut.

When I am silent it seems that nothing is happening, but everything is happening. Nothing ever stops happening. Everything is happening. To see into this is a way of melting down this carapace, this shell, of what we call existence.

It is all a gorgeous gamble, this breeding of pedigreed dogs. Therein lies its lure. When our prophecies come true, it is fun to boast. When they fail—which is oftener—silence is very golden indeed.

It is not even in extraordinary situations, where all eyes are upon us, where all our energy is aroused, and all our vigilance is awake, that the highest efforts of virtue are usually demanded of us; but rather in silence and seclusion, amidst our occupations and our homes; in wearing sickness, that makes no complaint; in sorely-tried honesty, that asks no praise; in simple disinterestedness, hiding the hand that resigns its advantage to another.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Afterward Hitler sat alone with me in the bay window of the dining room, while the twilight fell. For a long time he looked out of the window in silence. Then he said pensively: "There are two possibilities for me: To win through with all my plans, or to fail. If I win, I shall be one of the greatest men in history. If I fail, I shall be condemned, despised, and damned.

I would like to stay like this, lazy, warm, in the silence where only our regular breathing can be heard, without ever having to make gestures, speak words which sell us out and betray us; this moment is real and alive, I stretch it into eternity...

Digo de mim 'sou eu'. E não digo mais nada. Que mais há a dizer?

El tono es un golpe de silencio que enmudece, en cada voz, la voz de los Otros que habla en los lugares comunes; un intervalo entre los estereotipos que deja oír lo que queda del enmudecimiento de la voz propia, un resto del anonadamiento (necesario, constitutivo) de la voz personal en la in-diferencia de lo trivial.

L'amore si fa o si sente, l'amore non si dice, non si reclama e non si commenta l'amore fatto, l'amore ha gli occhi per parlare e le mani per recargli doni. Se gli occhi sfuggono e le mani arrivano vuote, è detto tutto. Due che non hanno niente da dirsi parlano del loro amore reciproco, che intanto st volando altrove. Parlare d'amore significa parlare d'altro

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.