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Quotes About Silence

We all live our lives carrying secrets we cannot disclose.
~ Haruki Murakami
I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.
~ Haruki Murakami
The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.
~ Haruki Murakami
But the silence spoke volumes.
~ Haruki Murakami
En ese momento, por fin lo captó. En lo más profundo de sí mismo,Tsukuru Tazaki lo comprendió: los corazones humanos no se unen sólo mediante la armonía. Se unen, mas bien, herida con herida. Dolor con dolor. Fragilidad con fragilidad. No existe silencio sin un grito desgarrador, no existe perdón sin que se derrame sangre, no existe aceptación sin pasar por un intenso sentimiento de pérdida. Ésos son los cimientos de la verdadera armonía.
~ Haruki Murakami
There are certain thoughts that, no matter what, you have to keep inside.
~ Haruki Murakami
Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.
~ Haruki Murakami
The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories.
~ Haruki Murakami
Aomame raised her glass to the moon and asked, "Have you gone to bed with someone in your arms lately?" The moon did not answer. "Do you have any friends?" she asked. The moon did not answer. "Don't you get tired of always playing it cool?" The moon did not answer.
~ Haruki Murakami
Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.
~ Haruki Murakami
Maybe in some distant place, everything is already, quietly, lost. Or at least there exists a silent place where everything can disappear. Or at least there exists a silent place where everything can disappear, melting together in a single overlapping figure. And as we live our lives we discover—drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each—what has been lost.
~ Haruki Murakami
I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.
~ Haruki Murakami
She didn't answer. Instead, she smiled sweetly. It was a smile so radiant that the air seemed to thin around it.
~ Haruki Murakami
There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage of acute loss.
~ Haruki Murakami
The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.
~ Haruki Murakami
The silence lent a faint weight to the air. As though I were sitting alone, at the bottom of the sea.
~ Haruki Murakami
The silence is so deep it hurts our ears
~ Haruki Murakami
Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone's asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there's darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.
~ Haruki Murakami
Besides being the world the kind of sadness that can not be expressed in tears. You can not explain it to anyone. Unable to take any shape, settles quietly in the bottom of the heart as snow during the windless night.
~ Haruki Murakami
dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.
~ Haruki Murakami
The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
~ Haruki Murakami
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
~ Haruki Murakami
And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.
~ Haruki Murakami
You know something? she said. What? I'm completely empty. Yeah? Yeah.
~ Haruki Murakami