Quotes About Silence

Silence hovers in the yards, leaving no pages with writing on them, that thing we'll later call the work.

Florita Almada had nothing to say. When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.

23 de diciembre Hoy no pasó nada. Y si pasó es mejor callarlo, pues no lo entendí.

El silencio es como una pantalla blanca que hay que llenar. Si la llenas, ya nada malo puede ocurrirte.

prefiero el ritual de la nada.

I've been silent for so long I don't know where to start. Anywhere would do. But ancient custom has it that everything begins with the gods.

Savage words: how one can destroy someone by simply sitting there in an armchair reading a book, not too far from him.

To remain silent is to be complicit in the face of the increasing injustice, racism, xenophobia, and intolerance we are currently witnessing today.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The Eagle wasn't always the Eagle. The Eagle, before he became the Eagle, was Yucatangee, the Talker. Yucatangee talked and talked. It talked so much it heard only itself. Not the river, not the wind, not even the Wolf. The Raven came and said The Wolf is hungry. If you stop talking, you'll hear him. The wind too. And when you hear the wind, you'll fly. So he stopped talking. And became its nature, the Eagle. The Eagle soared, and its flight said all it needed to say.

My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.

Only my pain is more silent than my anger.

Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask.

I bit my tongue and sat through his detailed and strained explanation. Not for the first time, I realized he considered me slightly slow. My silences he mistook for a lack of wit rather than a lack of any need to speak.

There is always power in holding a secret.

There are times when not thinking requires all of one's concentration.

Be the night. Not the wind that stirs the trees, not even the soundless owl a-wing or the tiny mouse crouched motionless. Be the night that flows over all, touching without being felt. For night is a cat.

It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.

It is difficult to insult the man you don't speak to.

Silence keeps a secret. I understand.' I

Tinha andado a manter um silêncio amuado para com ele, esperando avidamente que me perguntasse que bicho me tinha mordido. O problema era que ele não o fazia. Haverá alguma coisa mais provocadora do que esperar que alguém comece uma discussão?

She fell silent, overcome at what humans, in their ignorance, had done.