Quotes About Silence

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like an information but in silence. I start to talk when I was 32, it was good for me - it was like a liberation. I'm talking about a love story. I'm not talking about sex because love is love.

My father fought on the side of the Central Powers, as a soldier in the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Army, my maternal grandfather fought in the British Army, on different sides, and both were so traumatized by the experience that they never talked about it.

On a bus ride through China, my family and I had talked for hours before a police officer boarded to conduct an inspection. My mother and brother couldn't speak Chinese, so they pretended to be deaf and mute, and none of the Chinese passengers said anything, sparing us.

I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it.

I was a wallflower. I never talked to anybody. I was so afraid of people, I never said a word.

Honestly, I don't talk; I just like to fight. I'm not a good talker.

I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else.

People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

There is something joyous about not talking.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

I think it is important not to scream from the rooftops to make yourself heard, I want my work to do the talking for me.

Not talking about mental illness is killing people. We need that to stop.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.