Quotes About Silence

You can't order the waves to be silent, madame," Baldanders told her. "They are coming, and they are bitter with salt.

Inside the silken tent, we knelt before a simple altar heaped with flowers. Ava prayed. I, knowing no prayers, spoke without sound to someone who seemed at times within me and at times, as the angel had said, infinitely remote.

the street still so hot that the dogs would not bark for fear of fainting

We are always whirling in the trance of deficiency in which we equate being alone with loneliness, restraint with deprivation, being silent with being empty. I get seduced by the promise of adding yet another ornament to the tree of myself and forget to pay attention to the heavenly invisibles.

Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

In the silence, nothing was fragmented. There were no separate strands to gather together, to fumble, to complete for attention. In the silence, all of that fell away, and there was only what was here, and what was to be done.

The music comes out of the silence. I don't mind if it goes back in. We come out of the silence...

Many breeders, breed clubs and apparently the AKC believe that the less you talk about a problem, the more likely it is to go away.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.

Thall shall keep thy religion to thy selves.

Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.

Most gay men did not speak out against anti-gay policing so openly, but to take this as evidence that they had internalized anti-gay attitudes is to ignore the strength of the forces arrayed against them, to misinterpret silence as acquiescence, and to construe resistance in the narrowest of terms - as the organization of formal political groups and petitions.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is room wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous thought and the sharp bakcward stroke of repetance.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken.

Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies, all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression to silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

His confession was silent, and her promise of faithfulness was silent.