Quotes About Silence

We will have to repent, in this generation, not merely for the hateful words and actions of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good

Don't ask!" said Bevin. "If you ask questions, you'll get answers you don't want.

Io credo che un romanzo sia riuscito quando tocca le emozioni del lettore. Lo stesso può valere per tutte le creazioni artistiche. Di sicuro è così per le cattedrali. Quando le vediamo stagliarsi contro il cielo restiamo sbalorditi, quando le visitiamo restiamo affascinati dalla loro grazia. Quando ci sediamo in silenzio proviamo un gran senso di pace. E quando una cattedrale brucia, piangiamo.

A million people lined the route, according to the television commentary. The coffin was taken from the White House to St. Matthew's Cathedral, where there was a mass. At twelve noon there was a five-minute silence, and traffic stopped all over America. The cameras showed crowds standing silent on city streets.

Una de las mejores cualidades de aquél era su habilidad para mantenerse callado cuando debía hacerlo.

I've never told anyone about that letter," he said quietly. "I know," Thomas replied. "If you had, you'd be dead.

solo porque alguien hiciera una pregunta no significaba que hubiera que responder.

We will have to repent, in this generation, not merely for the hateful words and actions of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good," King said

Uneori e mai bine s? nu spui ceea ce ?tie toat? lumea.

Los miembros de esta generación tendremos que lamentarnos no solo por las palabras y los actos odiosos de las malas personas, sino por los clamorosos silencios de las buenas —

I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.

I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound.

Mi-a zis ca un om care-a tacut atata amar de vreme avea pesemne multe de spus, dupa care se intinse la loc pe perna si astepta. Eu ma straduii un minut sa-i zic ceva, dar singurele lucruri care-mi venira in minte erau din acelea pe care un om nu le poate spune altuia in cuvinte.

It's gonna burn me just that way, finally telling about all this, about the hospital, and her, and the guys- and about McMurphy. I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be truth! But, please. It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking about it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

I turned, going back along the planks toward the idling pick-up without saying anything else. I just wanted to be away from people. I didn't want to have to avoid answering questions about what happened. I didn't want the questions.

Meaning: Good night but stay. Viv, silent and slim as a shaft of sleepy light, stay, talk more to me with your articulate eyes. Hank, forget my words behind my words, stay, say some more. This is our chance. This is my chance. Say enough more for love or hate, enough more to make me sure of one or the other. Please stay, please stay .

Hank brooded behind a newspaper with heavy, rumbling silence, and Lee, smoking and staring out of the kitchen window with tragic, defeated eyes and an anemic pallor to his cheeks, didn't look capable of sustaining the shock of a haircut, let alone the loss of a mouthful of teeth.

Un uomo, dopo essere rimasto zitto a lungo come me, soggiunse, probabilmente aveva parecchie cose da dire, e si appoggiò al guanciale e aspettò. Riflettei per un minuto cercando qualcosa da dirgli, ma la sola cosa che mi venne in mente era una di quelle cose che un uomo non può dire a un altro uomo, perché tradotta in parola suona falsa.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.