Quotes About Silence

An echo would die of lonesomeness out there.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Loose lips sink ships.

I tend not to share things unnecessarily with those I despise.

Todo libro ha de hacer pedazos el silencio.

If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it.

If you can't do, you had best shut up. He started to slam the door, thought better of it. If you can't do, you'd best not slam doors.

Occasionally I looked at Bea to see if she was running over those events like I was, the sound effects living their own life behind her eyes, but she gave nothing away.

Not everything needs to be revealed. Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

The thing that seemed like silence must have been the endless cry of all the crickets and locusts in the world, rising and falling. (The Wide Net)

Her father left his questions unasked. But both knew, and for the same reason, that bad days go better without any questions at all.

But at the next flare a big tree on the hill seemed to turn into fire before their eyes, every branch, twig, and leaf, and a purple cloud hung over it. 'Did you hear that crack?' asked Robbie Bell. 'That were its bones.' 'Why do you little niggers talk so much!' said Doc. 'Nobody's profiting by this information.' 'We always talks this much,' said Sam, 'but now everybody so quiet, they hears us.' (The Wide Net)

Even if you have kept silent for the sake of the dead, you cannot rest in your silence, as the dead rest.

That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I listened to the mountain silence until I could hear as far into it as the faintest clink of a cowbell. In the mountains, what might be out of sight had never really gone away. Like the mountain, that distant bell would always be there. It would keep reminding.

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

MR. SMITH: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. [Silence.] MR. MARTIN: Don't you feel well? [Silence.] MRS. SMITH: No, he's wet his pants. [Silence.] MRS. MARTIN: Oh, sir, at your age, you shouldn't. [Silence.] MR. SMITH: The heart is ageless. [Silence.]

I know it's useless to talk. But sometimes I feel so lonely.

Hãy nói n?u b?n có nh?ng l?i l? m?nh hÆ¡n. N?u không, hãy im l?ng.' (_Euripide_)

How little common sense this man (Clay) displays…Oh, that mine enemy would write a book!... Silence would have been to him wisdom.

It's always the voice of God they try to silence first.

see my work as giving them a voice, a final say. But to do that effectively, you have to learn to stifle the sentiment.

I need to spend time with God even when I do not know what to pray.

University libraries, responding to student demand, are now social hubs as much as places of work, the cathedral silence that once characterised the library a thing of the past. In this, libraries actually hark back to an earlier model, pioneered in the Renaissance, when libraries were often convivial social spaces, in which books jostled for attention alongside paintings, sculptures, coins and curiosities.

The voice has been swiftly stilled. Only the echoes and the memory remain; but they will linger.