Quotes About Silence

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

burnt by the sun of your mouth, I'm unable to speak or paint you with words

twisted form of Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, and frankly, it's protected many a bad doctor and some true butchers.

Snow falling in the woods when there's no wind is the most peaceful thing I've ever seen.

Observó a los presentes en la sala y pensó que a veces el silencio se puede reflejar en los ojos de las personas.

Lewis no contestó. En lugar de eso, se dirigió el revólver a la sien, sonrió como un demente y apretó el gatillo.

Vi lo terrible que era decir cosas y no tener la oportunidad de hacerlo

Ya no oigo mis voces, de modo que ando un poco perdido. Sospecho que sabrían contar mucho mejor esta historia.

La ausencia de sonido puede ser peor que cualquier grito

the analyst finds that maintaining silence and a failure to respond to the most provocative and outrageous behavior by a patient is the cleverest way to get to the psychological truth of those actions.

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus expressA flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape?

To make delicious moanUpon the midnight hours.

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

trueholding n. the act of trying to keep and amazing discovery to yourself, fighting the urge to shout about it from the rooftops because you're afraid that it'll end up being diluted and distorted, and will no longer have been created just for you.

The silence of this age is an exclamatory silence. God has stopped talking because all that needs to be said has been summed up in the person of Christ. Those who preach do not come with a new word. Instead, they declare and apply that which has already been said. Like the apostle Paul, the preacher's message is shaped by a determination to "know nothing … except Jesus Christ and him crucified" (1 Cor. 2:2).

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

the silent tutting infuriated him as symptomatic of a generation. The assumed air of gravity and the fraudulent pretence of judgement in situations that required only answer or action struck him as the manner in which old men concealed their hollowness.

St John of the Cross,

The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.

There's nothing lonelier than grief. Sometimes I wanted to cry out to them all in the middle of History "Please please look at me help me can't you see how unhappy I am?" But what would have happened? They would have gathered round making soothing noises helping me out of the room maybe offering me tissues...and none of that would touch the deep dark ocean that circled silently inside. They could not see it touch it stop it. I didn't know any way to do that.

How strange it would now — like speaking without a voice. Is that what music is then, a ventriloquist with his doll ?

Bid them be patient, and some day, anon, They shall feel earth enwrapt in silence deep; Shall greet, in wonderment, the quiet dawn, And in content may turn them to their sleep.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

As a general rule, if you're holding down a job it's best to lie low and keep your mouth shut.