Quotes About Silence

What," he asked into the silence, "is her name?

But he was afraid to speak. He could see that speaking would be like dashing some very fragile bond to pieces, like kicking a dandelion gone to seed; the wispy, tenuous sphere of its body would scatter in the wind. So instead they stood together, the snow fluttering down from the clouds to melt into the water where their own reflected images trembled like two people trapped against the glass of a parallel world, and he reached, finally, to take her hand.

He thought of his year with Sandy in the house on Shadow Hill, how her eyes went to the windows, the silent desperation of everything they never said—gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the past.

Tiberius was persuaded to remain silent. The matter was closed.

In fact, his silent foreknowledge of the conspiracy suggests that he was not without sympathy with them

Cicero asked the Senators if they wished to banish Catilina. This was an ill-judged intervention. Embarrassed by Catilina's presence, the majority said nothing. Cleverly retrieving the situation, Cicero then asked if they would order him to banish Quintus Lutatius Catulus, one of the House's most respected members. They roared back, "No." This allowed the Consul to claim that, by its silence, the Senate had in fact consigned the revolutionary to exile.

I'm surrounded by silence but at the same time I'm drowning in words and it hardly ever leaves me, that sense of disconnection.

Agnes Carmichael, who turns out to be the killer, hasn't spoken a word – hardly surprising, as she's a deaf mute.

From my experience, law firms are always quiet places. Maybe it's because they make words so expensive that they tend to use them sparingly among themselves.

We had managed to drift into that awful arena, so familiar to the long-term married couple, where what was left unspoken was actually more damaging than what was said.

Great to meet you, Alex," he exclaimed. He smacked Alex on the shoulder. "Good to have you on the team!" Belinda Troy had said nothing.

She had no human side. For the next few minutes, she said nothing, sitting at my table like some sort of malevolent Buddha, unmoving and imperious, letting me sweat it out as I wondered what was going to happen next.

What was it about a set of car keys that had alerted him? Why had they put him in mind of Damian Cowper? Was Damian in some sort of danger? But I was sensible enough to keep silent.

All the real secrets are buried, and only ghosts speak the truth.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

When I make a contribution in debates and in our public life, the House wants to hear what I say. It goes quiet - it wants to know what my opinion is.

I am not one to discuss my future publicly.

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

If you want to punish somebody, never talking to them again is a really good method.

I know for a fact that we're not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.

I'm flattered that people want to hear me talk about nothing.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

What is true and what most folks think is that there is no sound in space. From almost all recollections, I would agree.

Everyone's asking if there will be a 'Frozen 2', but at the Studio there's actually been no talk about it!