Quotes About Silence

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

was asking what the difference was between mime and pantomime and no one would say.

For The Motherland, I used to say. The rest still do. Believers all. 'Rina as a matter of faith. Lydi with all her brave young heart. Vera growls it aloud with every shot. For The Motherland. I recall the flare of warmth it brought, the comfort on each step through hell. But those days are behind me now. The words I need, I cannot speak. To accompany a bullet I can never fire.

In the end, the war in Vietnam was much like any other. There were those who profited. Those it devoured. And then there were those for whom there are no words.

Oh, fierce librarians, then? Tell you to shush and that sort of thing?

Lirael didn't answer either question. She just looked at him, waiting for him to talk. He met her gaze at first, then faltered and looked away. There was something unnerving about her eyes. A toughness he had never seen in the young women he knew from the debutante parties in Corvere. It was partly this that made him talk, and partly a desire to impress her with his knowledge and intelligence.

The point? It is a ceremony, to quiet the mind, before conversation;

Soft, the snow falling/Steam spiraling from coffee/The slain cold and still

Come sleep, oh sleep, the certain knot of peace.

detenerse...

It is foolish to belittle one's neighbor; a sensible person keeps quiet. —Proverbs 11:12

When speaking might cause pain, love chooses to remain silent. — Jeanette Levellie —

No, not secrets so much as just the Secret. What he knew and had not told anybody, what he knew about his mother that had caused the divorce, what he knew, what he knew--- the Secret.

Among the Ethiopians it is well known that monkeys deliberately do not speak so they will not be obliged to work.

They should listen to the unsaid words that resonate around the edge of the poem.

Spring-water in the green creek is clear Moonlight on Cold Mountain is white Silent knowledge—the spirit is enlightened of itself Contemplate the void: this world exceeds stillness.

Quand la cloche des fleurs résonne au sommet des ombelles, toute la terre se tait, tout le ciel parle.

Possibly, I too shall take the train at that station one day, and go and seek around thy lakes, O Norway, O silent Scandinavia... Possibly, someday, I shall hear the lonely echoes of the North repeat the singing of her who knew the Angel of Music...

Se apretó el corazón con ambas manos con toda intención de hacerlo callar.

Se presionó el corazón con ambas manos para acallarlo. Pero el corazón no es el hocico de un perro e incluso cuando se sujeta con las dos manos el hocico de un perro -que ladra insoportablemente-, siempre se le oye gruñir.

Un silencio espantoso sucede a todos los ruidos.

Ti nejnevinnÄ›jÅ¡í, zasko?ení ve svém pokojném srdci, náhle blednou nebo se ?ervenají pod ranou, jež je zasáhne, napÃ…â"¢imují se nebo se hroutí, protestují nebo ml?í, když mají mluvit, nebo mlubí, když mají ml?et, nebo z?stávají klidní, když se mají potit, nebo se potí, když nemají - a vypadají pak najednou jako viníci.

There was an appalling silence between the three of them: the two who spoke and the shadow that listened, behind them.

Still no word from Mel.