Quotes About Silence

Another year down. Ten years. No one said anything. No one ever says anything. Nothing online. Nothing in the Sunday edition of the "Lowe County times"--"the Loco"--that Mom still has delivered every week. Memory holes are efficient.

To a talkative woman Madam, don't you have any unexpressed thoughts

The bourgeoisie is defined as the social class which does not want to be named.

In olden days, when towns were more scattered, distances greater, and life less complex, men were accustomed to be alone for hours and even days, and could stand it. The modern man must be talking, or he must be reading, or he must be playing: anything lest by accident he be left alone for a little time and compelled to think.

Seduto in silenzio, senza fare nulla, arriva la primavera e l'erba cresce da sola.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Angele had her reservations but kept her own counsel.

The shores run together, the waters are parallel. The waters run together, the shores are parallel. A single leaf rustles, the others are silent. Who knows how this dream ends.

The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters--there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

Shelved around us lie the mummied authors.

Oh no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard; My lips are now forbid to speak That once familiar word.

I need quiet when I'm recording because I don't want any noise in the background.

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

I don't know the reason why someone would not speak up about sexual harassment. I don't know why it doesn't happen here, but I am sure it exists not only in our industry, but every industry, it is there.

I love a cool cellphone as much as the next guy, but, god, I hate when it rings.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

I don't believe anyone wants to hear what I have to say.

You hear people say, 'Well, I was going to say this, but I knew I couldn't get through it without crying.' Well, like, think of all the great things we didn't hear because of that.

I don't enjoy hearing myself talk.

On a daily basis, it's heartbreaking to see women put up with violence for years silently and feel ashamed of speaking out about it.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.