Quotes About Silence

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.

It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

colectiva. Nuestros aplausos pronto se apagaron.

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

More rooted in logic was the silence of God. In the world there was evil and much of it resulted from doubt, from an honest confusion among men of good will. Would a reasonable God refuse to end it? Not finally reveal Himself? Not speak? "Lord, give us a sign…" The raising of Lazarus was dim in the distant past. No one now living had heard his laughter. And so why not a sign?

I think the dead should shut up unless there's something to say

More rooted in logic was the silence of God. In the world there was evil and much of it resulted from doubt, from an honest confusion among men of good will. Would a reasonable God refuse to end it? Not finally reveal Himself? Not speak?

Something unspeakable left the room.

The void and the unspeakable loneliness, the stillness and the silence and the darkness that awaited beneath the sod: no, no movement; no breathing; nothing. Too much … too much.

Taceant Colloquia. Effugiat Risus. Hic Locus Est Ubi Mors Gaudet Succurrere Vitae. [Let idle talk be silenced. Let laughter be banished. Here is the place where Death delights to succour Life.]

Death brings the anonymity of a post office box, allowing me to slip through the coming centuries silent and unobserved.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

Men of few words are the best men.

Words pay no debts.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul

Silence that dreadful bell! it frights the isleFrom her propriety.

The deep of night is crept upon our talk,And nature must obey necessity.

All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth.