Quotes About Silence

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows....

I supposed I've always thought if you really wanted something you shouldn't ask for it.

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

The pain hits me in thick black waves. I scream loud enough to wake the dead... only it doesn't.

Later on, when they had all said "Good-by" and "Thank-you" to Christopher Robin, Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent.

and then I scream loud enough to wake the dead... but it doesn't.

Imagine that you find your own neighborhood looking like Hiroshima. Destruction. Buildings knocked to the ground. A strange calm . . . as if you're in a theater. Silence. Only the tweet of sparrows.

Thorne had to bite down hard on his tongue to keep from reacting to all the golden hair that tumbled down onto the man's shoulders.

I can't." My voice just above a whisper. "I just can't." "Because you won't allow help?" I shut my eyes tight, not answering. "My help?" he asked.

Things may need to be said, but not necessarily heard by the other.

Há coisas que talvez tenham de ser verbalizadas, mas não necessariamente ouvidas pelo outro. P102

She waited for one of them to say something that might facilitate a more in-depth conversation, something that might bridge the distance between them; but neither man spoke.

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

Loud music doesn't bother the deaf.

Poetry doesn't speak, but you listen.

There is a deep silence in the words that you can only hear when you are reading."

Loud sound does not bother the deaf."

Dumme Gedanken hat jeder, aber der Weise verschweigt sie.

?nsan?n önemli anlarda dilsizle?en bir filozof oldu?unu ke?fetmesinden daha korkunç bir ?ey olamaz.

Her insan?n içsel bir biçimde yaln?z oldu?undan, bu yaln?zl???n kötü bir ?ey olmad???ndan ve bu konuyu konu?mak istemedi?imden, o zaman da susuyorum. Asl?nda bo? laftan ba?ka bir ?ey de?il ama Traudel için bo? laf de?il. Birçok insan?n içsel yaln?zl???n? inatla inkar etti?ini biliyorum. Traudel de bunlardan biri.

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.