Quotes About Silence

A silence fell between us. "I loved her, you know," I said. "I loved her." "Yes, I do know," he said, "and, you see, I did not. And so this doesn't matter to me very much. What matters much more is that I love you.

Ah! I had been screaming. I realized it. Lots of mortals around me, high up in the night, were telling me to be quiet.

Silence. All around him silence, wrapping up his spoken words and making them loud. Making them sharp in the stillness, like a movement, like a drop in temperature. Silence. There

Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you heed the silence of unknowing in the face of another's spiritual bondage.

listen to the silence of those who've learned to pray for nothing. For nothing has always been their portion, whatever the name of their nation, their city, their tribe.

There was never a mention, never a declaration or a decision. But the long hours of talking stopped. No more reading aloud, or music, or films. And after that there was simple physical affection, the two walking arm in arm, or Maharet at her reading with Mekare sitting motionless on a bench nearby.

Too many voices out there in the night.

She'd always liked to listen to people, especially when they talked so much that she didn't have to say anything much herself.

Maybe those who rose into the Light simply died, and the universe beyond this world was silent.

The silent ebb and flow of life without change seemed deadly to me.

I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it.

Love. Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you heed the silence of unknowing in the face of another's spiritual bondage.

She had already turned. She watched him in amazement as he made his way slowly across the lawn and into the house. Pandora stepped back for him, and we all watched in respectful silence as he sat down near the piano, his back to the front right leg of it, and his knees brought up and his head resting wearily on his folded arms. He closed his eyes. Sybelle, I asked, would you play it for him? The Appassionata, again, if you would. And of course, she did.

She would have been gorgeous if someone had thrown her into a waterfall and held her there for half an hour and I told her so silently.

If you really want peace in any world you have to learn to say nothing.

His mind was horrifyingly empty and still; and he felt the loneliness and the stillness of the rooms completely.

The old gods go into the sun, into the fire, or they meet with obliteration through violence, or they bury themselves in the deepest earth never to rise again. But the Mother and the Father go on forever, and they do not speak.

Those Who Must Be Kept are at peace, or in silence. More than that we may never know.

Lestat appeared to be studying Stirling, who had fallen silent, staring at Lestat, perhaps doing that little mental trick of memorizing all the details about which h would write later on. Members of the Talamasca were especially trained to do it.

It is plain that you move through the world by means of questions." "Yes," I said. "I do move through the world by means of questions and too often I've asked those questions in utter silence, or long centuries ago of people who gave me answers that were fragments which I had to piece together as though they were bits of old papyri. I hunger for knowledge. I hunger for what you mean to say to me.

From her long red locks she had taken one hair after another and spun it into thread, working with silent speed as he approached her.

He didn't answer me, but I saw his face darken for a moment and then he fell into reverie, with his habitual expression of curiosity and quiet grace.

It's the doom of beings to read patterns in the stars, to give them names, to cherish their slowly shifting positions and clusters. But the stars never say a word.

The silence of the golden room answered. It was as cold as the shrine in the mountains. I