Quotes About Silence

Finally, I spoke of the necessity of recounting frankly every human experience, including, I said emphatically, what seems unsayable and what we do not speak of even to ourselves.

When there's too much silence, she said, so many ideas come to mind, I don't pay attention. Only in bad novels people always think the right thing, always say the right thing, every effect has its cause, there are the likable ones and the unlikable, the good and the bad, everything in the end consoles

It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity and importance. And the fact that she didn't answer emphasized that preoccupation. However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.

Le cose brutte che non dici a nessuno diventano cani che ti mangiano la testa di notte mentre dormi.

Then Pasquale himself began to be silent, defeated by Lila's capacity to link one thing to another in a chain that tightened around you on all sides.

But I've always had a low voice, I can't yell, the words fall a short distance away like a handful of pebbles thrown by a child.

In conversations with my daughters I hear omitted words or phrases. Sometimes they get mad, they say Mama, I never said that, you're saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.

Cuántas palabras permanecen sin pronunciar incluso en una pareja que se ama...

Cuántas palabras permanecen sin pronunciar incluso en una pareja que se ama, y qué elevado es el riesgo de que otros la destruyan pronunciándolas.

O motivo havia sido um gesto sem sentido, sobre o qual, justamente por ser sem sentido, decidi não contar a ninguém. As coisas mais difíceis de falar são as que nós mesmos não conseguimos entender.

As coisas feias que você não conta se tornam cães que comem a sua cabeça enquanto você dorme.

they say Mama, I never said that, you're saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.

and compare it with mine and feel—I hoped—in the lead. Luckily I sensed that she would never do it and that I would only have stupidly exposed myself. I remained silent, as she did.

Los libros se escriben para hacerse oír, no para quedarse callados.

Everything was moving: the sea of fire under the crust of the earth, and the furnaces of the stars, and the planets, and the universes, and the light within the darkness and the silence in the cold.

Mas eu não invento nada, só escuto, o não dito fala mais do que o dito.

dull things of every day, she was afraid of the silence of

How and when words escape from books and the books end up seeming like empty graves is something to think about.

The daily standard of unlivability isn't news. So when the exceptional passes, everything is silent and everything continues to rot.

Un Dio facile non è Dio. Lui è altro da noi. Non si comunica con Dio, è così oltre il nostro livello che non può essere interrogato, ma solo invocato. Se si manifesta, lo fa in silenzio, per piccoli preziosi segnali muti che vengono da nomi del tutto comuni. Fare la sua volontà è piegare la testa e obbligarsi a credergli.

Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.

They were more severely infected than the men, because while men were always getting furious, they calmed down in the end; women, who appeared to be silent, acquiescent, when they were angry flew into a rage that had no end.

We were fourteen, fifteen years old, and already knew the importance of silence in love.

silence is solitude.