Quotes About Silence

He said, repeating the opinion of Socrates in the Phaedrus, that a tree, so beautiful to look at, never spoke a word and that conversation was possible only in the city, between men.

Affable! His own son, his one and only son, could not speak his mind or ease his heart to him.

As for me I say no more. Can I tell Shahar that the "conscience of the West" will never permit Israel to be destroyed? I can say no such thing. Such grand statements are no longer made; all our hyperbole is nowadays reserved for silence.

thoughts die the moment they are embodied by words

When you don't know everything that you could know, it's a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite.

Scott Nicholson

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

Sleep is a little slice of death.

Ba?kalar?n?n da benim kadar az bildi?i konulardan söz etmeyi sevmem.

Even the prudent and the good have before now hesitated to explain their mutual differences, and have dwelt in silence upon their imaginary grievances, until circumstances have become so entangled, that in that critical juncture, when a calm explanation would have saved all parties, an understanding was impossible.

In Bibliotheken fühlt man sich wie in Gegenwart eines großen Kapitals, das geräuschlos unberechenbare Zinsen spendet.

Si butta in ginocchio al suo fianco, le prende la mano e la inonda di lacrime mute

Te molesta que permanezca en silencio? ¿Qué iba a decir? No te das cuenta de la callada elocuencia de suspiros y miradas. Una diosa es capaz de romper el sello de los labios. Es Aurora. Ella me despertará un día junto a tus pechos. Sí, entonces cantaré mi himno a los dioses matinales, como el cuadro mnemónico, dulce revelador de secretos.

quickly. Well, it was probably still there, he

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.

Placed in a puzzling light, and moving, Our days put on such reticence These accents seem their own defense.

I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me that to leave all out would be another, and truer, way.

just as children imagine a prayer / is merely silence...

falling leaves hide the path so quietly

being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

I looked at the people playing, walking, loafing, hurrying, or sauntering across the little park in front of us. How many terrible stories were there, just there in front of me, never to be spoken?

Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence. "There is much I don't understand." "That will never change," Mortis said decisively. "Except that what you don't understand will change.