Quotes About Silence

It isn't what you say that counts, it's what you don't say.

Women were supposed to be seen and not heard.

When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.

Maybe all relationships, friendship, partner, parent and child, were held together by the things you did not say as much as the things you did. The unsaid was the keystone in the arch. Once you kicked it free, you had nothing that held you up.

[T]he sun declined, and we both fell into twilight silence. Night, which in autumn seems to fall from the sky at once, it comes so quickly, chilled us, and we rolled ourselves in our cloaks...

The silences of history must be made to speak [Il faut faire parler les silences de l'histoire].

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

He walked noisily, like a fish.

Ecrire, c'est une façon de parler sans être interrompu. (Writing, it's a way of speaking without being interrupted.)

Smutek saß einfach da, betäubt vom Lärm in seinem Inneren.

Wir verschwenden unsere Zeit", rief der Karierte. "Wir bündeln unsere Kräfte", sagte Gerhard. "Ich bitte um Ruhe und Geschlossenheit." "Schnauze jetzt!", schrie Kron. "Abmarsch!

Bezv?t?í m? zneklid?ovalo, kdo takhle ml?í, n?co chystá.

Una buona memoria non smette mai di verbalizzare l'ingiustizia. Annulla le possibilità di stupirsi e insegna a tacere.

While so much of our self-exploration today is hash-tagged #wellness and performed for all to see, it became obvious to me in the far reach of sacred lands, encircled by campfires and eucalypts, that sometimes the best way to pay attention to country is to keep your mouth shut, open your eyes and just listen.

My brain was so noisy and opinionated that it drowned out my heart.

We didn't speak, and a beautiful, sweet evil grew between us.

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

There's this rushing sound, like white noise. The sound of nothing.

If that which conspires to silence poor people had hands, shame would be its thumbs.

Su silencio le había salvado a él, pero había condenado a otros.

Caroline, do you value your neck?" "Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?" "Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.

Just be quiet and accept the praise.