Quotes About Silence

Every story has a time to be told, I convinced her. Otherwise you'll be forever a prisoner to the secret inside you.

Like a blind dolphin, the night of the new moon silently drew near.

I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling down. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes, before I even realize what's going on, there I am--naked and defenseless and totally confused. At times like that I always feel an omen calling out to me, like a dark, omnipresent pool of water. ~page 10

As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I'm thinking of not a thing. All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.

So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence.

It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one's hearing to it. .... The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.

There are some things that can't be explained in this life," Menshiki went on, "and some others that probably shouldn't be explained. Especially when putting them into words ignores what is most crucial.

She came to her own private conclusion, which she tucked away in a drawer, and silently went back to her meal.

Everything ended in silence. The beasts and spirits heaved a deep breath, broke up their encirclement, and returned to the depths of a forest that had lost its heart.

There are probably things people are better off not hearing … But they can't go forever without hearing them. When the time comes, even if they stop their ears up tight, the air will vibrate and invade a person's heart. You can't prevent it. If you don't like it, then the only solution is to live in a vacuum.

Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues. -from Heart the Wind Sing

Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in human society you might say. In reality, we tell lots of lies, and we often break into silence. However, if we were constant;y talking year-round, and telling only the truth truth would probably lose some of its value.

There was nothing I could say, so I said nothing.

I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun.

As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.

Dentro de mi, alguien, algo, se irá. Con la mirada baja, sin una palabra.

A secret's a secret because you don't let people in on it.

The absence of conversation didn't bother Kafuku. He wasn't good at small talk. While he didn't dislike talking to people he knew well about things that mattered, he otherwise preferred to remain silent.

Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.

I had no idea what to say. A silence descended on us as sudden as the instant fresh oil is poured into a large frying pan.

The two of us are linked together by the heavy bonds of silence that pass through the wall seperating our two worlds. We need each other more than anything, I feel without a doubt.

Onsuz yaln?zl?k duyuyordum, ama yaln?zl?k duyabilmem bile bana bir avuntu gibi geliyordu. Yaln?zl?k o denli de kötü bir duygu deÄŸildi. Küçük kuÅŸlar uçup gittikten sonra akmeÅŸenin sesizliÄŸi gibi bir ÅŸeydi.

Por profunda y fatal que sea la pérdida, por importante que sea lo que nos han arrancado de las manos, aunque nos hayamos convertido en alguien completamente distinto y sólo conservemos, de lo que antes éramos, una fina capa de piel, a pesar de todo, podemos continuar viviendo, así, en silencio.