Quotes About Silence

As I've already explained, Lady Shadow, I've spent a lot of time at court. I'm already well-versed in the art of bowing and keeping my mouth shut." "Ha! But have you read Crumpets and Cravats?

There was no record of Allegra being allowed to bear a daughter in this cycle. So the mere fact that you were born was already a violation. From birth she had been a mistake, Schuyler thought. Her mother that still, silent figure in the hospital bed... why did she choose to have me? Schuyler wondered

It was strange how we could talk so much and say so little.

This was part of love, to suffer. He'd planned to do it in silence, to experience the beautiful agony of the great romantics. Faced with it, however, beautiful agony was shit.

This night would have been so much more pleasant if all the men had stopped talking.

comprendí que la muerte puede ser, también,una larga conversación silenciosa con uno mismo, una múltiple sonoridad acuática, una profusión de monólogos propios y ajenos, eternos, repetidos, pero siempre originales. Como el arte. Y me sentí muy bien

Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.

Ree- Grey barked into the icy silence. Lax! The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precisely the effect Grey must have intended. It shocked Nan for a split second into a state of not-thinking, just being- Suddenly, all in an instant she and Neville were one.

No matter what tears were shed or what trials were faced, some things would stay the same. There would always be day and night, stars and sky, hope and rest. There would always be love, always compassion, and there would always be Skandranon. And forever, in the hearts of all the Clans, there would be Urtho—and for his memory, a moment of silence.

If you speak something's name too often, it might come looking for you. I

Goodbye, Mac," she said for the last time, and left unsaid a million more things.

One thing at a time,' said the Boy. 'You must be patient. This is a day of hope and wild revenge. Do not interrupt me. I am a courier from another world. I bring you golden words. Listen!' said the Boy. 'Where I come from there is no more fear. But there is a roaring and a bellowing and a cracking of bones. And sometimes there is silence when, lolling on your thrones, your slaves adore you.

Il castello era silenzioso come un mostro impalato.

For answer Mr Flay shot his head forward out of his collar and croaked, 'Silence! you kitchen thing. Hold your tongue you greasy fork.

It led on and on; vistas of forgotten metal; moribund, stiff in a thousand attitudes of mortality; with not a rat, not a mouse; not a bat, not a spider. Only the Lamb, sitting in his high chair with a faint smile upon his lips; alone in the luxury of his vaulted chamber, where the red carpet was like blood, and the walls were lined with books that rose up...up... volume after volume until the shadows engulfed them.

empty vessels make the most noise. It is true. The best adventurers and climbers, and the most successful people I know in life, are all great listeners, and they don't talk too much.

Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

Students who excel in active listening also contribute much to the formation of community. This is also true of students who may not speak often but when they speak (sometimes only when reading required writing) the significance of what they have to say far exceeds those of other students who may always openly discuss ideas. And of course there are times when an active silence, one that includes pausing to think before one speaks, adds much to classroom dynamics.

To be true to patriarchy we are all taught that we must keep men's secrets.

Madness, not just physical abuse, was the punishment for too much talk if you were female. Yet even as this fear of madness haunted me, hanging over my writing like a monstrous shadow, I could not stop the words making thought, writing speech. For this terrible madness which I feared, which I was sure was the destiny of daring women born to intense speech (after all, the authorities emphasized this point daily), was not as threatening as imposed silence, as suppressed speech.

Moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side a gesture of defiance that heals, that makes new life and new growth possible.

Certainly, for black women, our struggle has not been to emerge from silence into speech but to change the nature and direction of our speech, to make a speech that compels listeners, one that is heard.

I was taught that it was important to speak but to talk a talk that was in itself a silence.