Quotes About Silence

In a few hours the world will resume itself, but for now we're in a pocket of silence. We're in the plasmapause, a place of equilibrium, where the forces of the earth meet the forces of the sun. I imagine it as a place of stillness, where the particles of dust stop spinning and hang motionless in deep space.

Sometimes I think they are, not that it's ever been said

What happens when you finally decide to tell the truth and no one listens?

I can't talk about my childhood at all, because cannot say "I" when I mean "we," and if I say "we" it leads to a conversation about how I have a dead sister, instead of what I want to talk about. I found that out in the summer. So I don't talk about it.

On the one hand, Gramma and Grampar never mentioned sex at all. They must have done it, or they wouldn't have had Auntie Teg and my mother, but I don't think they did it more than twice. Then there's the way they talk about sex in school and in church. And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think yes, the world would be better off without it.

O senhor sabe o que o silêncio é? É a gente mesmo, demais.

Vossignoria sa cosa è il silenzio? Siamo noi stessi, in eccesso.

Vim. Diadorim nada não me disse. A poeira das estradas pegava pesada de orvalho.

Everyone was eating, talking softly, glancing at me, hugging me, eating. It was as if someone had turned the volume down. Everything looked normal, but the sound was muted. Death did this, set all this weirdness in motion, made people appear out of nowhere carrying casseroles, saying 'I'm sorry' over and over, death muffled their voices.

the silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured

Some things go too deep for words.

Perchance, I would listen. Have you said anything?

Es que tenemos el prejuicio de que las formas son exclusivamente físicas. La música es una sucesión de formas sonoras que destacan sobre el fondo. Su fondo es el silencio. Y el fondo de las ideas es el campo de la consciencia.

Silence is a frightening thing. Silences leaves us at the mercy of the noise within us. We hear the fears that need to be faced. We hear, then, the angers that need to be cooled. We hear the emptiness that needs to be filled. We hear the cries for humility and reconciliation and centeredness. We hear ambition and arrogance and attitudes of uncaring awash in the shallows of the soul. Silence demands answers. Silence invites us to depth. Silence heals what hoarding and running will not touch.

I stood where they'd left me. I watched them get smaller and smaller as they went down the hallway, leaving me there without a word, not even looking back. Only I was getting smaller and smaller, being swallowed up in the suffocating emptiness of the silent house; so that by the time they came back again, I would have disappeared.

I cannot make speeches, Emma. . . . If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more'" (E 3:13).

Having "lost her bloom" in the eight years since her romance and break-up with Captain Wentworth before the novel begins, Anne is wispy and quiet, still in love with Wentworth, but feeling helpless to do anything about it because he hasn't attempted to contact her again, and protocol of the day says she can't make the first move in contacting him.

Realizing fully the true nature of place is to talk its language and hold its silence.

uttered a word. He had

Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak. It's my box. Put what you want in yours.

Move in silence & Let your success make all the noise

Emma's lips drew together into a thoughtful

CONSUME OBEY BE SILENT DIE