Quotes About Silence

There is no need to say anything when you pray," the dean had heard Bishop Robert say at a recent confirmation in the city. "Just take time to look at God. And let Him look at you. That's all.

Sophie seemed to understand sisterhood. Sometimes sisters need to shut their mouths and drop it. This was definitely one of those times.

This guy was deader than dead, no question.

three men can keep a secret, but only if two of them are dead.

ste rosario de cuentas infelices calla más de lo que dice pero dice la verdad.

Me evitarás, creyendo que te evito? ¿Pisarás nuestra calle nuevamente? ¿Intuirás, cuando callo, por qué grito?

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken And yet so profound, and so loud, and so far, That it thrills you and fills you in measures unbroken— The unceasing song of the first morning star....

Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

Some of the women had gone public. Others had told Paltrow that because they succumbed to Weinstein sexually, they felt they could never speak out. Weinstein denied he had ever made those claims about Paltrow, but it seemed this was why he had been so worried about the prospect of her speaking up: Once others knew her story, his scheme would fall apart.

I can't even hear what I'm thinking most of the time. My brain's noisy.

Tiger Lily drifted down underneath herself. This was her one gift more than any other. Silently, she nodded. "Yes. Everything is more than okay.

She tried to decide whether the silence was an empty one or a waiting one.

It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.

Something about you makes me feel like I can tell you things like that. You're so still. It's like, you'll just hear it." He smiled wryly. "I can't even hear what I'm thinking most of the time," he said, his brow wrinkling. "My brain's noisy.

I've been reading about moths," she said, to fill the silence. "What have you read?" Maggie shrugged. "They navigate by the light of the moon. They fling themselves into flames and electric lights because they think they're headed toward the moon's light." "I guess they die in ecstasy then," Liam said.

It's good in some ways, not to have a language. It makes you see things. You turn your attention, not to babbling about yourself, broadcasting each and every thought to everyone within earshot-as people do- but to observing.

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

Again, please," she whispered. (Allie to Wes)

Here I've been telling him things in my head for weeks, writing long, frenzied missives to him I know I'll never send, and now that I have him less than two feet away, I'm struck dumb. Fantastic.

He's an intricate, mesmerizing puzzle; I only succeeded at putting the pieces together because for once in my life I observed. I stopped talking long enough to listen - really listen - not just to what's said, but also to everything that goes unspoken.

The wise speaker first learns when to stay silent

A man who does't want opinions should keep his own mouth shut.

Without books, a library was just a quiet room.