Quotes About Silence

I think, probably when I was 15 or so, I was going through a really hard time with my family, and I just felt really helpless - I didn't know how to put anything I was feeling into words, and I was really confused, and I felt like nobody would hear me, but I didn't even know what to say.

Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.

Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.

I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.

I do not say we are called upon to dispute and defend the truth with logic and argument, but we are called upon to show by our lives that we stand on the side of truth. But when i say truth, I do not mean opinion. To treat opinion as if that were truth is grievously to wrong the truth. The soul that loves the truth and tries to be true will know when to speak and when to be silent.

he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.

For the master believed in solitude and silence. Say rather, he believed in God. What the youth might think, feel, or judge, he could not tell; but he believed that when the Human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its own.

Ignorance is no reason with a fool for holding his tongue.

When you have got quite alone, sit down and be lonely…fold your hands in your lap, and be still. Do not try to think anything… by and by, it may be, you will begin to know something of nature. Nature will soon speak to you, or not until, as Henri Vaughn says, some veil be broken in you

And we had met at last in this same cave of greenery, while the summer night hung round us heavy with love, and the odours that crept through the silence from the sleeping woods were the only signs of an outer world that invaded our solitude.

He could not pray without words, and not a word would come!

Mrs Oldcastle was silent—why, I could not tell

It's a great thing, prayer. Nobody answers, but at least it stops you from thinking.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

Such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them.

the mute protest in your own bones

Words are such feeble things.

Bugünlerde fikir sahibi herkes korkudan kaskat? kesiliyor.

They carried on a curious intermittent conversation which flicked on and off like the beams of a lighthouse suddenly nipped into silence by the approach of a Party uniform or the proximity of a telescreen then taken up again minutes later in the middle of a sentence then abruptly cut short as they parted at the agreed spot then continued almost without introduction on the following day.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken.

He is simply a hole in the air.

Perché non gridavano mai così contro le cose che contavano?