Quotes About Silence

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

She laughed rather self-consciously. I have never talked about this with anyone before, she said. He hunched his shoulder so that her head slipped against it. People so rarely talk about anything that matters, he said. We fill silences and so often live with a deeper silence and a greater loneliness.

And yet he had taken her to that inn wanting to soothe himself with feminine compassion and warmth. Her very silence and self-possession had inflamed him, angered him. He had wanted her to reach out to him as no one had reached out for more years than he could recall, and she had looked at him with steady acceptance of what she must do to earn her living. He cursed softly and turned from the

Your dog has not lost any time in catching up on his beauty sleep." "Just do not utter any word that begins with w," she said, "especially with the letters a-l-k attached. You would soon discover how deeply asleep he is.

You do not have to say anything, he said gently. I really do not have the right to make such a declaration to you.

I kept it very quiet and very deep and very secret from all but the inner depth of my heart. I even felt ashamed of it. But I always thought of you.

Philippa knew why her mother had kept everything bottled up inside. It was the innate compulsion some people—particularly women?—felt not to make a fuss, not to display their suffering and humiliation to the whole world or even to those who are nearest and dearest to them.

For very pride's sake she had kept quiet about the humiliation that had ravaged her life. There was all the horror of being pitied if one spoke out.

He had never even put words to these deepest feelings in his own mind . . . He had never told anyone else. Or even himself. Yet he had told Diana Ingram.

Go back to sleep. There will be no more dreams.

And there was nothing more to say. They sat and gazed at each other from opposite corners of the carriage and could not even smile.

the slightest noise

The Georgian had used more words in 5 minutes than Wyatt had spoken during 1872 and 1873 combined.

Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk too much? You could call it On and On Anon.

When she finished, no one clapped or even breathed, for they were still inside that sacred place that music can sometimes create.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?" He said nothing more that day, but Ha'anala spent hours considering his words. A soul, she decided, was the most real part of a person, and to discover what is real requires privacy.

Sometimes nothing is the scariest thing of all

1 Silence Where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. -ADRIENNE

Your work is not only books and pictures. They are but bits of it. Your work is You, not less than you, not parts of you… These days when you "cannot work" are accomplishing it, are of it, like the days when you "can work." There is no division. It is all one. Your living is all of it; anything less is part of it. — Your silence will be read with your writings some day, your darkness will be part of the Light.

KIDS IN DISTRESSED FAMILIES ARE GREAT repositories of silence and carry in their bodies whole arctic wastelands of words not to be uttered, stories not to be told.

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. Zora Neale Hurston

It's hard to be an articulate ghost.

His silence hadn't been helplessness—it hadn't even been love. It had been pity.

I jerked huffing in air to holler, but the scream got stuck, just added itself onto the large round scream that all my life had been assembling in my chest.