Quotes About Silence

The point is that every single man who was there knows that the story is nonsense, and yet it has never been contradicted. It will never be overtaken now. It is a completely untrue story grown to legend while the men who knew it to be untrue looked on and said nothing.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

A pause followed my greeting. Then "We're watching you " whispered the voice on the other end. "Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys? " Silence. Then dial tone. These younger demons. So easily discouraged.

Just shut up and listen." "Well since you ask so nicely…." There was silence. I listened. He didn't say anything. "Are we communicating through the Psychic Hotline or what?

We sat in silence for minutes more before Guy said abruptly, "We're wasting our time. Did you want to grab dinner?" He started the Miata's engine. Stakeout Rule #1. Bring your own car or rent your own car. Do not rely on other people and their dwindling patience for your ride.

In our silence lies our safety.

But even in this card, as in all cards: transience. The faces in the crowd — faces that will watch the every move of the lordly All-Star in the foreground — have been blurred to something like Monet's lily pads, those hypnotic omens of the inevitable dusk into which we'll all dissolve. All names, even those of the greatest among us, will eventually unravel to silence.

I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on.

It happened all the time. Maybe someone had a legitimate gripe that deserved airing. Maybe someone had a compliment that shouldn't go unspoken. No one said a thing. So long and stay in touch, that's usually all we said. Take care of yourself, good luck. We said nothing about affection, appreciation, admiration.

In fact there was no such thing as a rumor. There was fact, and there was what did not come up in conversation.

Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bare.

She gathered wild greens and berries while he prepared the rest of supper. They ate largely in silence except for her praise of the fish and a brief discussion about how to catch the best trout. She favored nets, he preferred lines.It was all very polite.

Speak less than thou knowest.

From my years of teaching I know it's the children who say nothing who are in trouble more than the ones who complain.

Gentle Mother, we were lost together in our silences. Our wordlessness was our mutual destruction.

Words at night were feral things.

Your silence is a little black garden. You know everything there by heart.

Silence was a thing entrusted to the animals, the girl thought. Many things that human words have harmed are restored again by the silence of animals

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Una navaja en el cuello. ¿La literatura o la vida?, preguntó el ladrón. Desde entonces no he vuelto a escribir nada. Supongo que estoy muerto.

Y ellos estaban mudos y mirándose, a través del tiempo que no puede ser medido ni separado, del que sentimos correr junto con nuestra sangre.

Porque lo que las palabras lastiman, a veces solo el silencio arregla.