Quotes About Silence

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

P.S. When your deeper Self delivers a dream like that, don't talk about it. Don't dilute its power. The dream is for you. It's between you and your Muse. Shut up and use it.

In this book, when I say "Don't think," what I mean is: don't listen to the chatter. Pay no attention to those rambling, disjointed images and notions that drift across the movie screen of your mind.

Now the brave man. In dark hours he endures silently, uncomplaining. Reverencing the round of heaven's seasons, he does what must be done, sustaining himself with the certainty that to endure injustice with patience is the mark of piety and wisdom.

silent (and not-so-silent) threat.

The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

When one of tal Kyrte misses steppe and sky, she longs not just for their beauty but also their cruelty. For among the free people the foreawareness of one's death, and heaven's indifference to it, is the keenest and most brilliant pleasure, rendering all precious. This is the supreme mystery, the fact of existence itself, before which mortals may only stand in silence.

The problem with real life is there's no musical score. In movies, you know you're in danger because there's an ominous chord underlining the scene, a dissonant melodic line that warns of sharks in the water and boogeymen behind the door. Real life is dead quiet, so you're never quite sure if there's trouble coming up.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

and that touched off something else...old sorrows, good friends gone down into the earth. Sometimes I picture death as a wide stone stair-case, filled with a silent procession of those being led away.

Some death is as silent as the flight of a bird, some prey as unprotesting as a knot of rags. The

All you have to do is wait until she's asleep

I like to hold something back. Once information is out, it can't be recalled so it's better to exercise caution before you flap your mouth.

How better to show your respect for another person's thoughts than by silence? Is it polite to cover those thoughts with your own ideas? What is polite about that?

Según el punto en que el narrador decide callar las historias tienen un final feliz o triste.

There's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.

A slave was supposed to be like the Holy Ghost—don't see it, don't hear it, but it's always hovering round on ready.

I asked myself, How many times have I denied my innermost wisdom and silenced this voice? How many times can a woman betray her sou before it gives up and ceases calling to her at all?

Very often silence becomes the female drug of choice.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course. That's what I've been trying to do.

go. I, I am without God And I am she whose God is magnificent . . . I am being I am she who is nothing . . . I am the coming together and the falling apart I am the enduring and the disintegration . . . I am what everyone can hear and no one can say

I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. Was there ever a more galling verse in the Bible?