Quotes About Silence

He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.' 'What you got on it?' the girl said. 'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.' 'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

sitting with him was like sitting by yourself; he didn't talk except when it suited him. You asked him a question in the morning and he might answer in the afternoon, or he might never.

His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.

The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.

The air was so quiet he could hear the broken pieces of the sun knocking in the water.

Je ne me battrais pas pour chaque mot tombé de ma bouche, mais il y a des tas de choses dont je ne parviens pas à parler et pour lesquelles je me battrais.

el aburrimiento, araña silenciosa, tejía su tela en la sombra de todos los rincones de su corazón

If I'm feeling a bit fatter I won't talk about it.

I think that's one of the reasons women don't tell people when they've had a miscarriage - they think it's their fault.

I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.

I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time - like 10 or 15 minutes a day - to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place.

The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.

There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.