Quotes About Silence

There comes a time when all the secrets are told and all that is left are their spent ghosts.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. —THOMAS HARDY

We always need to listen for the untold story.

He had retreated into a silent movie of his own making and I was watching from the anonymous remove of a theater seat. He was flickering, growing distant, fading like the '82 Latour.

There are various reasons for keeping your mouth shut, but the best one is that you have nothing to say.

Almost all of my really good times have been silent but have had to end.

Primera conclusión: para leer, hay que aprender a estar quieto.

É com os escritores imaginários que eu aprendo o que quero fazer. Por exemplo, Stephen Dedalus ou Nick Adams. Leio suas vidas como um modo de entender do que se trata. Não tenho interesse em me inspirar nos escritores "reais". O desprezo de Dedalus pela família, pela religião e pela pátria será o meu. Silêncio, exílio e astúcia.

Estás só. Ninguém o sabe. Cala e finge. Mas finge sem fingimento. Nada 'speres que em ti já não exista, Cada um consigo é triste. Tens sol se há sol, ramos se ramos buscas, Sorte se a sorte é dada.

Se escucha, desde el cedé del radio, So Beautiful or So What, pero apagamos porque cualquier sonido es una agresión para nosotros en este momento.

What cannot be accomplished by threats can often be achieved by composure. Sit and stare and let your opponent fill the silence with his own demons.

She did not try to explain, and Huma did not ask her to. For a brief time, the war, the knighthood, all his problems vanished.

The rabbits mingled naturally. They did not talk for talking's sake, in the artificial manner that human beings - and sometimes even their dogs and cats - do. But this did not mean that they were not communicating; merely that they were not communicating by talking.

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

There is a silence, a truce; the old earth-gods retreat, sullen, beaten and disconsolate; London has beaten them, swallowed, engulfed their territory, crushing their flowers into mud.

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

The law of unintended consequences rules, often with deadly silence.

The longer you went without speaking, the harder it gets to break the silence.

The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.

When I compare my slow and unprofitable life with the frequent and wonderful mercies received, it shames me, it silences me, and leaves me inexcusable.

If you stand to close to your reflection you do not see the full picture of who you are. When one heart speaks, other hearts cannot help but listen. Always keep your mouth closed when cleaning the toilet. All from my book.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Puede que una palabra correcta sea eficaz, pero ninguna palabra es tan eficaz como una pausa en el momento adecuado".

Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it. 4.