Quotes About Silence

Even the prophets suspected they were mad, and kept their mouths shut Only the poor—who are with us always—only they continued in the hope.

Better to say nothing and be thought a fool, than to interfere in the business of wizards and remove all doubt.

I don't want to spend the rest of the day interrupting your questions, so I'm going to temporarily forget how to make words come out of my mouth.

A voice called out, cold as chloroform and old shame.

They sat in companionable silence for a few moments after that, while the sun settled into its downward arc in the west and long shadows began to creep across the face of the city.

While Kaiser has steadfastly refused to silence the prophets, he also repeatedly warns against giving them the last word.

Q: What did one ocean say to the other ocean? A: Nothing. They just waved.

Naj?eš?e, poslušati ne?iju ispovijest je znati odslušati je šute?i. Povrije?enom ne trebaju mudre rije?i, ve? samo tišina.

More than loud acclaim, I love Books, silence, thought, my alcove. Pangur Bán Poem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by Seamus Heaney

He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will be quiet At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.

My poor scapegoat, I almost love you but would have cast, I know, the stones of silence. I am the artful voyeur of your brain's exposed and darkened combs, your muscles' webbing and all your numbered bones: I who have stood dumb when your betraying sisters, cauled in tar, wept by the railings, who would connive in civilized outrage yet understand the exact and tribal, intimate revenge. -"Punishment

The space we stood around had been emptied into us to keep

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Otherwise, three little words would have leaked from his mouth. And undoubtedly doomed him in ways he couldn't even guess at. Bad time. Bad place. For that kind of thing. Forever.

To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!

My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.

So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.