Quotes About Silence

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

I'll shut myself off from everyone to the point of insensibility. Make an enemy of everyone, speak to no one.

Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.

And what I really intended to say in the end remains unsaid.

It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards.

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

Silence, I believe, avoids me, as water on the beach avoids stranded fish.

Every dog has, as I do, the urge to question. And I, like all dogs, have the compulsion to be silent.

I asked myself at the time: how is it that she is not astonished at herself, that she keeps her mouth closed, and expresses nothing of any wonderment?

At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them, reaching as far as the stars. And the footsteps of invisible passers-by, whose course I had no wish to guess at, the wind that kept on driving against the other side of the street, the gramophone singing behind closed windows in some room - they made themselves heard in this silence, as if they had owned it for ever and ever.

Não ouças sequer, espera simplesmente. Não esperes, sequer, sê absolutamente solitário, absolutamente silencioso. Então o mundo irá oferecer-se a ti para se fazer desmascarar, não pode agir de outro modo; sob o teu encanto, desenrolará os seus anéis a teus pés.

To be sure, the deeper one digs one's pit, the quieter it becomes; the less anxious one becomes, the quieter it becomes.

Amalia smiled, and that smile, although a sad one, lit up her sombre face, made her silence eloquent and her strangeness familiar. It was like the telling of a secret, a hitherto closely guarded possession that could be taken back, but never taken back entirely.

How can you hold their silence against others, and keep silent yourself?

Incerteza, secura, silêncio. É nisto que tudo passará. Que tenho de comum com os judeus? Só dificilmente tenho alguma coisa de comum comigo próprio e deveria manter-me muito quieto a um canto, contente por poder respirar.

Open yourself. Let the human person come forth. Breathe in the air and the silence.

I will probably die in silence, surrounded by silence

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such a thing never happened, it is still conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never.

Would you call it a conversation if the other person is silent and, to keep up the appearance of a conversation, you try to substitute for him, and so imitate him, and so parody him, and so parody yourself.

Înseamn? c? susÅ£ii o conversaÅ£ie dac? cel?lalt tace ÅŸi,pentru ca s? menÅ£ii aparenÅ£a schimbului de replici,cauÅ£i s? îl înlocuieÅŸti tu,deci îl imiÅ£i,ÅŸi îl parodiezi,ÅŸi deci te parodiezi pe tine însuÅ£i.

Church staff creep silently as part of their job, you don't notice them.

you should talk less in general;