Quotes About Silence

Her silence is mine.

Le temps n'efface pas tout, certains instants restent intacts en nos mémoires, sans que l'on sache pourquoi ceux-là plus que d'autres. Peut-être sont-ce là quelques confidences subtiles que la vie nous livre en silence.

Solo que las cosas no se callan. El universo no es silencioso. El caracol suena.

Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Magistratum legem esse loquentem, legem autem mutum magistratum

He took my fingers in his, and for a long moment we remained still. Two old bodies linked together by our hands and by the thousands of tender words we no longer need to speak.

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.

Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

Where do the words go when we have said them?

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

I've been prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence.

That room has been static for me so long: an emptiness. a void. a silence containing an unheard story ready for me to unlock. Let there be plot.

People need such stories, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning. I couldn't sleep.

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.