Quotes About Silence

On the question of speaking, Stoics and Buddhists are at one. In Epictetus' words: 'Be mostly silent, or speak merely when necessary, and in few words. We may enter sparingly into conversation sometimes, when the occasion calls for it; but not about any of the common subjects, such as gladiators, or horse races, or athletic champions, or food, or drink – the vulgar topics of conversation; and especially not about individuals, either to blame, or praise, or make comparisons.

That was how she saw the storyteller for the last time - in an absolutely silent world, in a staircase. He'd hit his target. When she fell into darkness, she knew that she would never see him again. She'd love him to the very end.

There was the place where all the shouted words fall into the water. They're too weak to make it from shore to shore. I saw the words underwater, millions of them; they're lying there on the bottom of the sea, a whole load of wrecked sentences, sentences that never reached their destination, questions from one side and answers from the other…

The white noise from the old Walkman enveloped them both; like a blanket of new snow, it draped itself over them, shutting out all the curious looks. And the world under the blanket was - surprisingly, wonderfully - absolutely, quiet.

Anna," he said for the fourth time, as if there was nothing more to say, now that she'd finally answered. Nothing but her name. As if he'd just called to make sure she existed.

Y yo la miro y siento que amo a la gente triste y silenciosa.

Era l'ora che turba il cuore; quell'ora in cui, mancando la luce, le cose e le anime si sentono libere, quasi, da una vigilanza fastidiosa; i monti paiono coricarsi a grande agio sul piano, le campagne dilagano sopra i villaggi e casali, le ombre pigliano corpo, i corpi sfumano in ombra, nel cuore umano affondano le impressioni, i pensieri del presente, e vien su un movimento confuso di ricordanze lontane, di fantasmi che inteneriscono e fanno sospirare in silenzio.

Neppure un atomo si moveva, nel silenzio grave della notte.

Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence

Nunca soy más yo mismo que cuando guardo silencio y escucho, cuando dejo a un lado mi fatigosa identidad y mi propia memoria para concentrarme del todo en el acto de escuchar, de ser plenamente habitado por las experiencias y los recuerdos de otros.

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

Only the wound speaks its own word.

Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y toda, es silencio.

Tôi nói v?i ý ngh? là có l? tôi nên im l?ng. Và tôi nói.

L'odio ha una sua concrezione strana, quando è definito e formulabile era già nato in noi, preesisteva in silenzio acquattato in una piega dell'animo

A person who has endured the insult for no fault of his own & remained silent for many years is just like a dormant volcano that can burst out with lava at any time.

A person who is party to the crime/injustice turns blind eye to the truth/ground situation and even asks networking people not to send any SMS/whatsapp message related to that awakening subject

An effective way to stay away from being fooled is to never say anything either in favour or against any media news on which most people discuss or share publicly their views.

Better to keep quiet than to speak a thought that has got no wisdom light.

Better to keep silence than to keep writing all sort of sentence or thoughts that make no sense to a wise person.

Better to say nothing or just a few thoughts that mean truly something valuable than a whole lot of things which seem nothing but a garbage of words to someone truly valuable.

Every woman has a voice and the same becomes often noise after her marriage , only a strong man has the power to put the pause button over it to make the peace of mind in his life.

Perhaps the best time to refrain from participation in any conversation is when a lot of people discuss something with a great exhilaration in unison.