Quotes About Silence

The little book of instructions suggested that he should simply concentrate 'soulfully' on the question which was 'besieging' him, write it down, ponder on it, enjoy the silence, and then once he had achieved inner harmony and tranquillity he should push the red button. There wasn't a red button, but there was a blue button marked 'Red', and this Dirk took to be the one.

THIS TIME THERE would be no witnesses.

A slow stupefied silence crept over the men as they stared at the computer and then at each other.

That's a good name—ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me? And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

A sudden silence hit the Earth. If anything it was worse than the noise. For a while nothing happened. The great ships hung motionless in the sky, over every nation on Earth. Motionless they hung, huge, heavy, steady in the sky, a blasphemy against nature. Many people went straight into shock as their minds tried to encompass what they were looking at. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. And still nothing happened.

There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence.

His eyes passed over the solid shapes of the instruments and computers that lined the bridge. They winked away innocently at him. He stared out at the stars, but none of them said a word.

There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence. The

I go up, said the elevator, or down. Good, said Zaphod, We're going up. Or down, the elevator reminded him. Yeah, OK, up please. There was a moment of silence. Down's very nice, suggested the elevator hopefully. Oh yeah? Super. Good, said Zaphod, Now will you take us up?

One of those nasty hushes had descended on the place, a sort of missile crisis sort of hush. Even

Ru ... ra ... wah ... who? He finally managed to say and lapsed into a frantic kind of silence. He was feeling the effects of having not said anything to anybody for as long as he could remember.

It seemed somehow unnaturally dark and silent, even for a ship whose two-man crew was at that moment lying asphyxicated in a smoke-filled chamber several miles beneath the ground. It is one of those curious things that is impossible to explain or define, but one can sense when a ship is completely dead.

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room.

what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.

Always keep your mouth shut with a drunk. You can never win with piss tanks. The most you can hope for is to break even.

While dead men tell no tales, their corpses often speak volumes.

Beware the dog that does not bark, and the man who does not talk.

To most people, Metcalf had discovered, silence was even more unbearable than pointed questioning.

were not shouting anything, just silently

Of the dead'… hmmm… 'speak well or say nothing.

She waited, motionless in the dim light. There was no sound but the faint susurrus of wind.

The three-million-dollar Omega-9 Parallel Processing Computer, which took up a series of large gray boxes along one wall, was now completely silent.