Quotes About Silence

In the morning's early hours, quiet voices were loud.

Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.

I don't want to stand in naked silence, pathetically unaware of how to be.

Not another word was said for more than an hour. They only walked home together with aching feet and tired hearts.

Bi oju ri enu a pamo. Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.

He wondered if silence gathered in some places: a wood in deep winter; a dock where a boat moored in still water; an abandoned farmhouse. The world at large was against silence, which made it all the more restful and the more necessary when one came upon it.

For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect – not just the fantastic degradation, not just the fear and the boredom and all the rest, but also the layered injustice, the silent injustice. So all right. We're back where we started. To you, nothing – from you, everything. They took it from me, it seems, for no reason, other than that I value it so much.

In general, writers never find out how strong their talent is: that investigation begins with their obituaries. In the USSR, writers found out how good they were when they were still alive. If the talent was strong, only luck or silence could save them.

Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing.

No. Tocqueville said that humour would be bred out of them by sheer diversity. Anything witty was bound to offend someone. He thought they'd reach the point where nobody'd dare say anything at all.

They did not speak until the reception at the Marriott. The walls were edged with tables of blini, fish pie, and piroshki.

He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.

A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence

Speaking a lot about something does not in the least guarantee that understanding is thus furthered. On the contrary, talking at great length about something covers things over and brings what is understood into an illusory clarity, that is, the unintelligibility of the trivial. But to keep silent does not mean to be mute ... one who is mute still has the tendency to speak. ... Authentic silence is possible only in genuine discourse. In order to be silent, Dasein must have something to say.

La conciencia habla única y constantemente en la modalidad del silencio. (§ 56)

But even assuming this: Language would be actually spoken according to all of its directions and possibilities, and were the thrust of an earthquake now immediately to take place so that the whole community was numbed mute by fear, would language then cease to be?

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, Wait on time.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

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