Quotes About Silence

He was going to sleep a little while. He lay still and death was not there. It must have gone around another street. It went in pairs, on bicycles, and moved absolutely silently on the pavements.

He said nothing.

Ay, he said aloud. There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood.

But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy.

You'll lose it if you talk about it.

We made love and then made love again and then after we had made love once more, quiet and dark and unspeaking and unthinking and then like a shower of meteors on a cold night, we went to sleep.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it.

Yes," said Wilson. "There's that. Doesn't do to talk too much about all this. Talk the whole thing away. No pleasure in anything if you mouth it up too much.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO You like music? How would I not

After the New Yorker piece I decided that I would never give another interview to anyone on any subject and that I would keep away from all places where I would be likely to be interviewed. If you say nothing it is difficult for someone to get it wrong.

With her mouth closed she was a rather pretty girl.

In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. But

But I know many things I can't say.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk... that will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ---Ernest Hemingway

We never argued about these things because I kept my mouth shut about things I did not like.

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I would always rather not know. Then, no matter what can happen, it was not me that talked.

So we sat and thought deeply for awhile.

had stopped at the Montoya for several years. We never talked for very long at a time. It was simply the pleasure of discovering what we each felt.

L'amore è l'amore e il divertimento è divertimento. Ma c'è sempre un tale silenzio quando muore un pesciolino rosso.

porque yo guardaba la boca callada cuando algo no me gustaba. Si a una persona le gustaban las pinturas o los escritos de sus amigos, yo lo miraba como algo parecido a lo de la gente que quiere a su familia, y es descortés criticársela. A veces, uno puede pasar mucho tiempo antes de tomar una actitud crítica ante su propia familia, la de sangre o la política.

Non lo disse ad alta voce perché sapeva che a dirle, le cose belle non succedono.

Staying quiet doesn't mean I have nothing to say, it means I don't think you're ready to hear my thoughts.