Quotes About Silence

She and I had lost each other long ago in those confusions and silences. But now, beside this infant, we were within an intimacy, as when sweat covered her face after a seizure and I would hug her to me. When being wordless had been best.

His conversations lost some of their syllables out of shyness.

Quite early on I had discovered the overlooked space open to those of us with a silent life. I didn't argue with the policeman who said I couldn't cycle over a certain bridge or through a specific gate in the fort—I just stood there, still, until I was invisible, and then I went through. Like a cricket. Like a hidden cup of water.

Wherever Hana is now, in the future, she is aware of the line of movement Kip's body followed out of her life. Her mind repeats it. The path he slammed through among them. When he turned into a stone of silence in their midst. She recalls everything of that August day— what the sky was like, the objects on the table in front of her going dark under the thunder.

I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of it he pointed to the horizon and said, 'Faya!' That was a good day.

witnessed anything so obscene. The shocked silence among the boys in the

Always listening, listening to the wet fluid speech with no order, unfinished stories, badly told jokes that he sober as a spider perfected in silence.

small talk plunged to its death around him.

But don't take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.

Sometimes the best way to show your respect for something is to just leave it alone.

The healthiest food in the supermarket - the fresh produce- doesn't boast about its healthfulness, because the growers don't have budget or packaging. Don't take the silence of the yams as a sign they have nothing valuable to say about your health.

If we could hear the squirrel's heartbeat, the sound of the grass growing, we should die of that roar

Don't take the silence of the yams as a sign they have nothing valuable to say about your health.

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

I don't sing in the shower at all, and I don't sing in the shower, either.

I don't even sing in the shower.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

In this journey there is so much to my life that I just do privately... I don't really make it a huge priority to tell every single thing that I do every single day about my life.

My father always told my sisters and me that once you succeed, people will automatically be quiet. And he was right.

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.