Quotes About Silence

Never interrupt someone who is making a mistake.

Gods work! Silence so great it hurts your ears, colour so bright it hurts your staring eyes. A vicious ruined class of man could cry at such scenes because it seems to tell him that his life is not approved. The remnant of innocence burns in his breast like a ember of the very sun.

People endured horrors, and then they couldn't talk about them. The real stories of the world were bedded in silence.

Out there in the silent prairie with only the perpetual wind for music and he tells us to charge. Ain't there an old story about a windmill?

again. 'I do remember terrible dark things, and loss, and noise, but it is like one of those terrible dark pictures that hang in churches, God knows why, because you cannot see a thing in them.' 'Mrs McNulty, that is a beautiful description of traumatic memory.

Mitten im Nirgendwo.

Now he couldn't hear a thing. No breathing. No scraps of sentences. Not even crackling any more. Nothing. And for the first time, he realised that silence can inflict pain in a way that even the loudest of noises cannot

What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One by one, the opponents ran out of heat, their voices faded, their steps faltered and finally, with a wry smile and a shoulder shrug, they were forced to admit defeat.

They call it poetry, what she feels with her mouth closed. By his.

De peligro e mengua si quieres seer quito, guardate de tu lengua, e mas de tu escripto. Negar lo que se dize a veces a lugar, mas, si escrito yaze, non se puede negar.

In war, {freedom's} meaning is bound to the collective, making peace and freedom the same . . . The collective is a mob that suffers in silence, and waits.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

No me extrañaría que después de años de palabras escamoteadas Julián terminara teniéndole miedo a las elipsis—.

Tuco is in a bubble bath. The One Armed Man enters the room.] One Armed Man: I've been looking for you for 8 months. Whenever I should have had a gun in my right hand, I thought of you. Now I find you in exactly the position that suits me. I had lots of time to learn to shoot with my left. [Tuco kills him with the gun he has hidden in the foam.] Tuco: When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

La verdad, hablaban sólo por cumplir un ritual, con un propósito único, no decir nada.

Zen means putting it all down, cutting off all thinking, and returning to your pure and clear original nature.

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

but our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of Him.

Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.

No doubt his fellow priests would condemn his act as sacrilege; but even if he was betraying them, he was not betraying his Lord. He loved him now in a different way from before. Everything that had taken place until now had been necessary to bring him to this love. 'Even now I am the last priest in this land. But Our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of him.

Beg for Love. Consider this burning, and those who burn, as gifts from the Friend. Nothing to learn. Too much has already been said. When you read a single page from the silent book of your heart, you will laugh at all this chattering, all this pretentious learning.

Augustine of Hippo said, "Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.