Quotes About Silence

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?

Necesitaba decirle, en silencio, que las cosas cambian, crecen o se marchitan, pero que la vida continúa. Que todos formamos parte de un ciclo superior, de un orden que solo Dios comprende.

I'm not going to try and change you mind." "If you're here, you accept it's my choice. This is the first thing I've been in control of since the accident." "I know." And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak...

Um silêncio aturdido é diferente de qualquer outro, percebi nesse momento. Estende-se, ganhando peso, e depois implode sob o peso das perguntas por fazer.

You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?" Margery said finally. "Ain't the hurt. It's that in that instant you realize the truth of what it is to be a woman. That it don't matter how smart you are, how much better at arguing, how much better than them, period. It's when you realize they can always just shut you up with a fist. Just like that.

awkward tears or nodding silent

You're having another unnervingly quiet day. What happened to 'chatty to the point of vaguely irritating'?

Hiçbir ?ey söylemeden durman?n ne kadar zor oldu?unu bilir misiniz? Her bir hücreniz tam tersini yapmak için yan?p tutu?uyorken bu ne kadar da zordur.

Um…I'm not afraid of hard work. I'm good at dealing with all sorts of people and…and I make a mean cup of tea." I began to blather into the silence. The thought of it being her son had thrown me. "I mean, my dad seems to think that's not the greatest reference. But in my experience there's not much that can't be fixed by a decent cup of tea…" There

You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group.

They sat in companionable silence, sipping their tea.

Y ahí estaba. Él lo sabía. Yo lo sabía. No me quedaba nada por hacer. ¿Sabes lo difícil que es no decir nada? ¿A pesar de que hasta el último átomo de tu cuerpo se esfuerza en lo contrario?

There are no real secrets among the rich, it turns out. Just people paid to keep them.

This time the silence was painful. I heard my voice slowly swallowed by it, and couldn't work out what to do with my hands.

My voice cut into the silence. The words hung there, searing themselves on the little room long after the sound had died away.

A silent promise, if you like, that there was a bigger picture, a brighter future.

I took my place on the bench and we sat in companionable silence for a while.

She abhorred a conversational vacuum.

I could hear him thinking the million things he chose not to say.

So Lily's mouth would open and nothing would come out, then Louisa would start rattling on about meeting her grandmother or whether she had eaten something and she had realized she was on her own.

I had become very good by then at smiling and saying nothing at all.

I had a million things to say and none I knew how.

então eu chorei. sem soluçar desta vez. as lágrimas saíam em silêncio e me diziam que mais alguma coisa estava me deixando. culpa. medo. e algumas outras coisas para as quais eu ainda não tinha encontrado nomes.

He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something to me but had forgotten what it was.