Quotes About Silence

I figured out something, Lorie," he said. "I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know.

Looking at her, though, was like looking at the hills. The hills stayed as they were. You could go to them, if you had the means, but they extended no greeting.

What have they said to us? I could translate, but it would be meaningless. They have welcomed us in the name of their Emperor, who appears to be an over-Master. The short, round one is Mediator to this Emperor. Ah. We have at last found one who can communicate. Speak to her. But he has said nothing! Say nothing in return.

No two breaths are the same; no two moments are the same. Each one is our life. Each one is infinitely deep and complete in itself. The challenge here is to embody and live this awareness, to work with the automatic habits of mind that would turn us into automatons and betray our genius, to walk our own path, as Larry is continually encouraging the reader to do, to find our own way, breath by breath, to taste silence and discover liberation within each and any breath.

You may also notice the stillness of the pause between breaths.

The limitless, lowering sky, the long stretches of motionless empty prairie, the silence, complete right down to the absence of birdsong -- who knows what decides a man to leave most of his words unspoken?

People get more work done when they don't talk.

a woman, silent, voiceless, a mere woman who didn't bear on her shoulders the enormous responsibility of building the conquest with her words. A woman, who, contrary to what would be expected, felt relief in reclaiming her condition of submission, for it was a much more familiar sensation to be an object at the service of men than to be a creator of destiny

A Lupita le llevó muchos años de encierro descubrir que uno escucha mejor cuando está en silencio y que está mucho más acompañado en la soledad.

Dicen que el sordo no oye, pero compone. Tal vez Nacha sólo escuchó las palabras que todos callaron.

Do you hear how the sand sings?

Un instante de paz donde todo se comprendía, donde todo tenía sentido, aunque no pudiera explicarse con palabras, pues no había lenguaje que lo pueda nombrar.

must be seen and not heard.

Beyond them the darkness was like a mist thickening over a flat, white world. Stars twinkled far away around part of its rim. Before him, the black storm climbed rapidly up the sky and in silence destroyed the stars.

The vast prairie was dark and still. Only the wind moved stealthily through the grass, and the large, low stars hung glittering from the great sky.

Silence is also speech. -Silerian Proverb The bitter heart eats it's owner. -Kintish Proverb Only one thing is better than learning an enemy is dead: learning that he is in Sileria. -Valdani Proverb

She craved solitude, but not infinite solitude.

If I tell you something Leah, can you keep a secret? Conor pressed a callused finger across a petroglyph of a deer like a blind man etching memory into his brain.

mi crollò in grembo, costringendomi a tenerlo tra le braccia mentre piangeva, squassato da spasmi e singhiozzi, come se fosse letteralmente straziato e squartato dal dolore, eppure in silenzio, senza un grido, senza un gemito, quasi che gli fosse stato insegnato a non attirare troppo l'attenzione sulla propria sofferenza. Se fai troppo rumore, vengono a cercarti per scoprire perché piangi.

I didn't know what to say to that, so i kept my mouth shut. When in doubt,shut the fuck up.

I decided not to answer on the grounds that I might piss someone off.

Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.

When in doubt, shut the fuck up.

There are some stories, some memories, that if you tell them after dark, they seem to gain weight, substance, as if there are things listening, waiting to hear themselves spoken of again. Words have power. But even thinking about them is sometimes enough to make the air in a room heavy.