Quotes About Silence

Y entonces la soledad se poblaba con sus pensamientos, las tinieblas se desvanecían ante sus ilusiones, y el silencio se turbaba con sus votos y sus proyectos.

A tutti i mali vi sono due rimedi: il tempo e il silenzio

Et parfois, en se rencontrant, nos regards avaient une éloquence qui palliait la retenue de nos discours.

The stranger often learns important truths in the home of his host that the latter would perhaps conceal from a friend; with a stranger one is relieved of obligatory silence; one does not fear his indiscretion because he is passing through.

À voir ce que l'on fut sur terre et ce qu'on laisse Seul le silence est grand; tout le reste est faiblesse.

Silence alone is great; all else is weakness.

The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

The only language {God} hears is the silent language of love.

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

But now I understood that, although words were God's first creation, silence was closer to His divine spirit, and that prayers given in silence were infinitely greater than the thousands of words men might offer up to heaven.

The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.

Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.

This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell

There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.

What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud.

But children can tell when love has been lost, they know when silence means peace and when it's a sign of despair.

I had heard it said that Malachi wrote so beautifully the angels came to watch, for words were the first thing God created out of the silence and were still the most beautiful of His creations.

Once I knew nothing about McKay and now I knew everything about him. This seemed as good as any reason for not walking out the door. There are so many ways to stop the knowing, and I tried them all. I tried silence, I tried heroin, I tried calling it love. And then I stopped trying to call my dumbness any one of ten thousand names.

People all over town had listened for my grandfather's cries, but there were none. Only silence.

Women were hurt every day and kept the cause to themselves.

there was a distance between us. Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.