Quotes About Silence

Les manières de souffrir: Il y a la peur. La peur est terrible et le silence qui la noie encore plus. Il y a la colère, l'enragement quand j'ai cogné ma tête sur le mur de ma chambre. Il y a parfois la pitié qui me donne les yeux d'une fourmi. Et puis la tristesse qui est triste et qui dure.

I don't know what to say.' 'That's okay. Sometimes talking is like singing in a storm.' 'Like when you're scared?' 'Exactly.' 'Or when you're sad?' 'That too. A voice can be reassuring.

S'il existe un cimetière des mots arrachés aux êtres qui comprennent, je veux pouvoir m'y promener.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Later, with time, we no longer need a shawl over our eyes or grass in our ears. The one playing the blind man simply turns his gaze inward, and the deaf one shuts his ears to all sounds

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

So be it.' She faded into silence. I could feel what she wanted to say. She wished to apologise for letting her anger get the better of her, and for sending us here to die, but the word 'sorry' was too alien to an inquisitor's tongue. 'Hyperion?' +Mistress?+ 'Hiljah kah uhtganjen mev tarvahettan.' My laughter carried over the vox. Greet the end with courage. Fenrisian poetry at its blunt best.

He did not answer, nor did he watch as I left. He was seeing Sigismund again, dwelling on replies he could never speak to a brother he had once admired and who had died despising him.

The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem.

He waited, the trail of his words slowly fading away into the rocks and grass and dirt and trees all around them. Nothing

Do not divulge any fact that will help nobody.

He directed her attention to another question: "When I speak to you in your language, what happens to mine? Does my language continue to speak, but in silence?

DuyulmuÅŸ ezgiler güzeldir, duyulmam??lar? daha güzeldir.

Evin sessizliÄŸi beni boÄŸuyordu ve bana onu hat?rlatan çok fazla eÅŸya vard?.

Y sólo entonces supe que mi vida había sido un desierto hasta ese instante, y conocí la dulzura del silencio entre compañeros.

I was only rarely called upon to say anything in the open battlefield, although at times Emma looked accusingly at me and made me feel that I might have offered more support had I been of a less spineless constitution

But I am so afraid of disturbing this fragile silence.

hay cosas, palabras, que uno lleva mordidas adentro y las lleva toda la vida, hasta que una noche siente que debe escribirlas, decírselas a alguien, porque si no las dice van a seguir ahí, doliendo, clavadas para siempre en la vergüenza.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.