Quotes About Silence

The perfect quote sprang to mind, but I resisted saying it under my breath, since Jonathan would hear. I couldn't even mouth the words, since for all I knew, he'd hear my lips moving. So I conjured up a vision of the Tin Man and let him say it for me in my head. "Now I know I've got a heart. I can feel it breaking.

Cuántos silencios existían? ¿El de un bosque, el del mar en un día plácido, el de un bebé dormido? ¿El de la desesperación final?

Hay palabras que antes de ser escritas ya están muertas. Hay palabras que antes de ser pronunciadas ya están gastadas. Hay palabras que antes de ser oídas ya son mentiras. Palabras.

Hay palabras que después de ser escritas ya no valen. Hay palabras que después de ser dichas no han sido oídas. Hay palabras que después de ser escuchadas lloran. Palabras. Sólo palabras. Todas las inocencias están huérfanas de palabras.

La vida es el ruido entre dos silencios.

O desejo nascia dela, de seu peito, do silêncio, do devaneio, da solidão, do sonho. Sem motivo, sem ponto de partida, sem semente nem raiz. Nascendo dela — "de minha ruindade mesmo, Norminha" —, de seu corpo em febre, crescendo naquela carne estrumada de ausência, de penúrias, de maldições; ânsia plantada no esterco de sua danação:

la muerte acaba siempre por imponer su silencio en los que la contemplan.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Ah, when one has not the gift of rendering one's grief superbly and transforming it into literary or musical passages which weep magnificently, the best thing is to keep still about it.

He grew enthusiastic in thinking of the convents. Ah! to be earthed up among them, sheltered from the herd, not to know what books appear, what newspapers are printed, never to know what goes on outside one's cell, among men—to complete the beneficent silence of this cloistered life, nourishing ourselves with good actions, refreshing ourselves with plain song, saturating ourselves with the inexhaustible joys of the liturgies.

Prefiero una pequeña asamblea donde poder gritar a un vasto imperio donde tuviera que callarme

Uyuyal?m. ?nsan uyudu mu her ?eyi unutur.

Nen var Zeze?" "Hiç. Åžark? söylüyordum." "?ark? m? söylüyordun?" "Evet." "Öyleyse ben sa??r olmal?y?m." Ä°nsan?n içinden de ÅŸark? söyleyebildiÄŸini bilmiyor muydu yoksa? Bir ÅŸey demedim. Bilmiyorsa bunu ona öÄŸretmeyecektim.

Dijalog je rodio ?utanje.

Cuando los hombres no tienen nada claro que decir sobre una cosa, en vez de callarse suelen hacer lo contrario: dicen en superlativo, esto es, gritan. y el grito es el preámbulo sonoro de la agresión, del combate, de la matanza. Dove si grida non è vera scienza decía Leonardo. Donde se grita no hay buen conocimiento

Su rasgo característico, absolutamente inequívoco, es su deferencia por la opinión de los demás. No habla nunca; repite siempre.

Su mueca es fofa, su palabra muda, su mirar opaco.

The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.

Walang maitutugon ang wika sa tanong ng pag-ibig buhat sa isang sulyap na kumikislap o palihim. Sa halip, sumasagot ang ngiti, ang halik, o ang bugtonghininga.

The whys and wherefores didn't need to be said. If you are reading this have ever loved someone, you will understand. Putting it into words is useless. The uninitiated cannot understand the mysterious.

Ay! tal me ha sucedido siempre en los momentos más dolorosos de mi vida. Mi lengua, asaz habladora, enmudece cuando mi corazón estalla en sentimientos.

Walang maitutugon ang wika sa tanong ng pag-ibig buhat sa isang sulyap na kumikislap o palihim. Sa halip, sumasagot ang ngiti, ang halik, o ang buntonghininga.