Quotes About Silence

La catástrofe, para el hombre, se debe a que no puede quedarse solo. No hay ni una persona que pueda estar sola consigo misma. Actualmente, todos los que deberían vivir consigo mismos se apresuran a encender la televisión o la radio. Creo que, si un Gobierno suprimiera la televisión, los hombres se matarían entre sí en la calle, porque el silencio los aterraría.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.

The dissolving power of conversation. One realizes why both meditation and action require silence.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

We know, we feel that everything has been said, that there is nothing left to say. But we feel less that this truth affords language a strange, even unsettling status which redeems it. Words are ultimately saved because they have ceased living.

When we see someone again after many years, we should sit down facing each other and say nothing for hours, so that by means of silence our consternation can relish itself.

Do prawdziwego kontaktu mi?dzy osobami dochodzi jedynie poprzez niem? obecno??, pozorny brak komunikacji, na drodze tajemniczej, bezs?ownej wymiany podobnej do cichej modlitwy.

If only we could return to those ages when no utterance shackled existence, to the laconism of interjections, to the joyous stupor of the pre- verbal!

Apaixonado pelos vocábulos, odiava os mistérios dos silêncios pesados e os tornava leves e puros: e ele próprio tornou-se leve e puro, já que aliviado e purificado de tudo. O vício de definir fez dele um assassino gracioso e uma vítima discreta.

As long as you live on this side of the terrible, you will find words to express it; once you know it from inside, you will no longer find a single one.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Silence," he would say, "brings man closer to God and makes him, on earth, like unto the angels.

Why do men insist on achieving something? Would it not be better if they stood still under the sun in calm and silent immobility? What is there to accomplish? Why so much effort and ambition? Man has forgotten the meaning of silence.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence

When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

If with each word we win a victory over nothingness, it is only the better to endure its reign. We die in proportion to the words which we fling around us . . . Those who speak have no secrets. And we all speak. We betray ourselves, we exhibit our heart; executioner of the unspeakable, each of us labors to destroy all the mysteries, beginning with our own.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Em prometia no dir mai res, no fer mai res que els altres poguessin emmagatzemar al seu cap per retreure-m'ho el dia que els donés la gana. No volia quedar mai més enterrat, immobilitzat per un munt de paraules, convertit en un retrat que em feien els altres i que jo no podía esborrar.

Dorotea bajó lentamente a la cripta, alumbrándose con un cirio prendido en la lámpara; abrió la mohosa puerta, cerró por dentro, y se tendió, apagando antes el cirio con el pie...

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell.

A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

There is nothing in the universe but this. I smile. I do not talk to people. I just breathe and stare and exist.