Quotes About Silence

She is better, she is safer, if she rests in Richmond; if she does not speak too much, write too much, feel too much; if she does not travel impetuously to London and walk through its streets; and yet she is dying this way, she is gently dying on a bed of roses.

You might very well think that - I couldn't possibly comment.

La luna se veía grande y plateada sobre los pinos negros y hacía brillar misteriosamente las viejas piedras de las ruinas. Momo y Gigi estaban sentados en silencio el uno al lado del otro y se miraron largamente en ella: sintieron con toda claridad que, durante ese instante, ambos eran inmortales

Algunos opinaban que a Beppo Barrendero le faltaba algún tornillo. Lo decían porque ante las preguntas se limitaba a sonreír amablemente y no contestaba. Pensaba. Y cuando creía que una respuesta era innecesaria, se callaba. Pero cuando la creía necesaria, pensaba sobre ella.

Önce düÅŸünür ve sonra da cevap vermeye gerek görmezse susard?. Cevap vermesi gerektiÄŸine inan?rsa, daha da uzun düÅŸünürdü. ... çünkü Beppo'ya göre, dünyadaki bütün anlaÅŸmazl?klar kas?tl? ya da kas?ts?z, aceleye getirilerek söylenmiÅŸ birtak?m yalan yanl?? sözlerden kaynaklan?yordu.

Permanecí en silencio. No quería decirle que aquello era una práctica común. No quería contarle que en el mundo de los negocios los secretos son dinero, que el miedo es una arma, que el conocimiento es poder.

When you avoid talking about one conspicuous thing in a family, soon you stop talking about any conspicuous things in the family. It's like a form of rot.

Those who say don't know, those who know don't say

Those who say don't know, and those who know don't say.

Best of all, he gave us a rule of thumb about information in the markets that I later found useful: "Those who say don't know, and those who know don't say.

people threw around when they wanted the conversation to end, and for brains to go dead, and for all questioning to cease.

And sometimes, when a lot has happened in your life, much of it inexplicable, silence is what you need to say the most.

Are you okay?' 'What do you mean?' 'You stopped talking. Just sat there looking intense.' 'Sorry. I had a stretch of interior monologue. Slightly lyrical. Takes a while to get through.

The note took long moments to fade and, when it had at last died away, there was an absolute hush over the world, the milling millions were still, there was an air of expectancy. And then the White Lords came.

Oh, be silent!" Elric cried. "For a god, you talk too much. Take the swords—and give me back my wife!

You know something, you never know what lonely is until you are really alone, alone all day, alone all night, with no one to talk to.

I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover? I said nothing. -Deny it,damn you!

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.

If a wound is great you cannot turn it into something that is spoken, it can barely be written.

You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you have to tell him to empty your mind. We just stayed there together, silent in the dusk like this, and we were quite happy.

The noise of the trees, the breaking of moon into silver fish bouncing off the leaves of asters outside.

Roman history, Nathaniel. You need to read it. It is full of emperors who cannot tell even their children what catastrophe is about to occur, so they might defend themselves. Sometimes there is a necessity for silence.

Just as no score relies on only one pitch or level of effort from musicians in the orchestra. Sometimes it relies on silence.

You did not speak for some time. You felt safer that way.