Quotes About Silence

Even a stone would talk if you broke its teeth.

Speech is oft repented, silence never

Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.

Mais le plus beau voyage dans le temps que je connaisse c'est celui que procure la lecture. On vous croit dans cette pièce alors que vous vagabondez dans d'autres siècles. Et cela sans faire le moindre bruit.

He nurtured silence so long That emptiness took hold of him. The man became a dry branch That cracked in the cold.

Mrtvi znaju tajnu besmrtnosti, ali Å¡ute.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

I hear my silence talked of in every lane; The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.

If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn't it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death.

Jja s'inquiétait pour lui. Il n'avait pas essayé de lui expliquer tous ses ennuis, car elle n'aurait jamais pu les comprendre. Elle ne lui en voulait pas, il en était persuadé. Elle faisait de son mieux : elle offrait sa compassion silencieuse pour atténuer une douleur secrète, comme maintenant. Il savoura cette attention paisible pendant un moment. —

Guarda, pues, silencio, hijo mío, y a su tiempo verás que el mayor de los regalos es conocerme de verdad. Y aunque te parezca que mis respuestas llegan terriblemente tarde, mi más preciosa respuesta de todas sigue siendo … Espera".1

I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing." I can't help millions of people change their lives by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Understanding arises out of silence rather than words.

When we find a way to quiet the mind, then awareness immediately expands and fills the vacuum.

At the heart of any language, then, is the poetic productivity of expressive speech. A living language is continually being made and remade, woven out of the silence by those who speak.… And this silence is that of our wordless participations, of our perceptual immersion in the depths of an animate, expressive world.

Govor nam je potreban koliko i vazduh koji udišemo, jer se govorom osloba?amo pritiska nerealizovanih misli, pri?a i re?enica. ?utanje može da ubije - i onoga koji ?uti, kao i onoga koji sluša.

Ništa nije strašnije, kaže žena, nego kada upitaš nekoga da li te voli, a onda na njegovom licu ugledaš izraz takve dosade da bi najradije zaboravila da postojiš. Ali pitanje je ve? postavljeno, re?i vise u vazduhu kao opran veš i preostaje ti jedino da ?utiš i ?ekaš odgovor koji ionako ništa ne zna?i. (Dosada)

We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails. We let the stars shine into us.

There was nothing to be gained in speaking to the evil, and everything to lose.

Barking dogs, Sam knew from sad experience, weren't regarded with the same respect they once had been. There was a time when a barking dog would cause the homeowner to get up and look out the windows, just to make sure no one was prowling around the yard. Nowadays, though, most people simply wished the dog would shut up.