Quotes About Silence

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It's there in their dreams.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning The ginger lady by my bed Covered in a cloak of silence I hear you talking in my head

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.

Even stories need a chance to sleep.

I think sometimes just being silent and watching can change a person.

I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person.

You'd better not talk about microscopes anymore," he whispered, "or I don't know if I can control myself.

Qacha just nodded. She's a good one, that Qacha. She seems to know when to keep talking and when to let the words drizzle into silence.

They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her heart took its time quieting down.

She set the coffee down beside him with a thud that made the liquid slosh over the rim and sat down a couple of stairs behind him. He reached for the cup and took a swallow without acknowledging her. She waited. Nothing. "You're, uh, welcome," she prompted. He didn't speak. He didn't nod. Wow. Breathtaking. It took balls to be that rude.

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

Sometimes the words didn't have to be said to know love was real.

Thoughts need words. Words need a voice. I love the smell of my mother's hair after she washes it. I love the feel of the scratchy stubble on my father's face before he shaves. But I've never been able to tell them.

Stella wondered how silence could be so loud.

So Hobart and Harriett get their house burned down? What's next--a lynching?" Mrs. Bates jerked the bucket from the woman next to her. "I've seen a body swingin'. Three times in my life," her husband said, his voice low. For a moment, except for the roaring of the smoky flames, everyone went quite. Stella wondered how silence could be so loud.

Everybody uses words to express themselves. Except me. And I bet most people don't realize the real power of words. But I do. Thoughts

Todos utilizan palabras para expresarse excepto yo. Y estoy segura de que la mayoría de las personas no se dan cuenta del poder que poseen las palabras. Pero yo sí. Los pensamientos necesitan de las palabras y las palabras necesitan de la voz.

Everybody uses words to express themselves. Except me. And I bet most people don't realize the real power of words. But I do. Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.

That moved me so much about you, the way you were a dumbstruck one and yet you seemed to know everything I did not know

but he does not want to talk about it, he wants a stillness at the end of it.

seeking how to accept him as he was, under the law that he could not speak—and when I shrieked against the law he shrinked down into its absolute, he rose from its departure gate.

And I wonder if the world is not silent— to be inside of—if it groans, if it creaks as it turns.

my spirit was holding its breath... there were planets, workaday, rolling silent by, and luminous moons, their backs to us, and troughs where atoms turned inside out.