Quotes About Silence

Historians, as Robert Darnton observed in 1980, 'want to penetrate the mental world of ordinary persons as well as philosophers, but they keep running into the vast silence that has swallowed up most of mankind's thinking.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

There was a profound silence, abruptly broken by an enormously loud rumble from George's stomach. Plaster didn't actually fall from the ceiling, but it was close.

Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.

But certainly the two best-known tales in the neighborhood - the key hauntings, if you will - concern the Red Room and the Screaming Staircase.' There was a profound silence, abruptly broken by an enormously loud rumble from George's stomach. Plaster didn't actually fall from the ceiling, but it was close. 'Sorry,' he said cheerfully. 'Famished. I think I"ll have another doughnut, if you don't mind. Any takers?

The echoes had faded, and now the eager silence of the house rose to enfold us like the waters of a well.

Piano player's gone," Scarlett said. "That's always a bad sign.

Istared at George's body.

The girl was silent too, grim- faced, straight-backed. She did not try to hurry. There was no need. Nothing that had happened could be undone.

Sometimes you don't need to talk things out. Sometimes, with the right person, things just need some time to percolate on their own, without the messy lunge and parry of discussion to hinder them.

There are some things you can never say out loud, even to yourself, sins of the mind that you can only file away in the hopes of absolution at some later date.

Take it like a man and shut the fuck up.

You know on TV when there's one of those awkward, shocking moments and all you hear are the crickets in the background? Well chirp fucking chirp...this is one of those moments.

Aveva deciso di non parlare più, mai più. Ormai era l'unica forma di protezione che riuscisse a immaginare. Neanche una parola, da lui non avrebbero cavato più niente. Sarebbe diventato un blocco compatto di silenzio, una superficie liscia e scivolosa contro cui la sventura sarebbe rimbalzata senza trovare un accesso.

le parole esprimono meno bene del silenzio, in questi momenti, ciò che il cuore vuole dire.

Far down the corridor a slim figure in white approaches, dwarfed by the smoky distance; her nun-like cap floating, her scarlet cape, the "cape of pride," slipped round her narrow shoulders. How intent and silent They are! I watched this one pass with a look half reverence, half envy. One should never aspire to know a Sister intimately. They are disappointing people; without candour, without imagination. Yet what a look of personality hangs about them....

En este negocio no sólo vendemos información y espacios publicitarios: por encima de todo vendemos silencio.

Hay cuervos, pero nadie ha oído sus graznidos.

We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less.

What has been said is often less important than what has not been said.

Because you brand our tongues with silence. Because you watch us in fear, even while we sing.

All the words that have passed between you and me to this point are nothing. The empty exhalations of the grave. The muttering of the wind through two exhumed skulls.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.