Quotes About Silence

Some words were left unsaid Oh Layla, as you slept peacefully in my arms, and the stars kept on peeping into the room to glance at your smile!

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing.

May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

alles wäre sauber und still, leer und kinderlärmfrei gewesen. Aber willst du mit vierzig, mit fünfzig noch so leben? hat Simon gefragt, und ich habe nichts geantwortet. Ja, vielleicht will ich.

For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered okayness in my ear. I didn't speak it, to anyone.

Las uniones no tienen en qué apoyarse salvo en el chateo y los mensajes de texto; la unión sólo se mantiene gracias a nuestra charla, nuestro llamado telefónico, nuestros mensajes de texto. El que deja de hablar queda fuera. El silencio es igual a la exclusión.

Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.

Quiet fell upon the pickup and lasted for a little over nineteen minutes. Is that why you hang around with him?, Loretta asked. Cuz he saved your life? Sort'a. I know Earl isn't always easy to get along with. Fact is, he can be a real pain the ass more often than not, but after you spend enough time with him, and you learn to ignore his personality, he's a pretty decent guy. If you say so.

Paul Dirac was notoriously a man of few words. Dick Feynman told the story that when he first met Dirac at a conference, Dirac said after a long silence, "I have an equation; do you have one too?

Retirement is the laboratory of the spirit; interior solitude and silence are its two wings. All great works were prepared in the desert, including the redemption of the world.

But the rules of the game don't simply dictate silence or obedience on the reader's part. What sustains the bond — the bondage, if you'll allow it — is its volatility. The dominant party is always vulnerable, the submissive party always capable of rebellion, resistance or outright refusal.

The dehumanisation of women is a central political technology in male supremacist cultures. Male supremacy is founded on the idea that women are biologically inferior to men. The girls and women who have been destroyed, driven into silence by madness, murdered or taken their own lives, are the true witnesses of male supremacy.

Shhh," she wants to say to her husband as he speaks a pleasantry in her ear, "I am remembering being lonely.

Faith is not a product of our will. It occurs without intention, without will. Words expire when uttered, and faith is like the silence that draws lovers near, like a breath that shares in the wind.

We often feel how poor the edifice would be were it built exclusively of our rituals and deeds which are so awkward and often so obtrusive. How else express glory in the presence of eternity, if not by the silence of abstaining from noisy acts?

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

To sin by silence when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.

How weak and fruitless must be any word of mine.

I'd rather be quiet and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.