Quotes About Silence

There are more experiences in life than you'd think for which there are no words.

There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found.

Actions lie louder than words.

Life is the space between our things.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

The air is full of things we aren't saying, and I wonder if he feels it too.

às vezes precisamos escrever nossos sentimentos, mas não necessariamente precisamos compartilhá-los

Often, mental and emotional illnesses go undiagnosed because the person suffering symptoms is too ashamed to speak up, or because their loved ones either fail to or choose not to recognize the signs.

Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

I don't say anything because I used to love words. I loved them and was good at arranging them. Because of this, I felt protective of all the best ones. But now all of them, good and bad, frustrate me.

Fine," he said. He reached up and cupped my face in both his hands. "We don't have to talk." And that's when he kissed me. On the lips.

Be silent, hide away and let your thoughts and longings rise and set in the deep places of your heart. Let dreams move silently as stars, in wonder more than you can tell. Let them fulfill you—and be still.

I could do with a bit of piece and quiet.

Now it was rare to lose a parent or lose a child; and people wouldn't discuss it, in case it invited bad luck in. In case it was tempting fate, or superstition. She thought of how many people wouldn't talk about Hari's speechlessness in case drawing attention to it would somehow visit it upon their own children.

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.

When something that terrible, that horrible happens to you, you don't want to talk about it with anyone. You want to bury it deep inside you and let it rest in peace. You want to forget it ever happened. You want to stay home from school.

I thought he was kind of a dick too, but I didn't say so. You're not supposed to join in when someone is bashing his father.

I stopped speaking when I realized I was no longer using any verbs or nouns, or making any sense

It was turning it into a secret that gave it power.

I wished there was something I could say to take that look away, but sometimes there just weren't words.

When something that terrible, that horrible happens to you, you don't want to talk about it with anyone. You want to bury it deep inside you and let it rest in peace. You want to forget it ever happened.