Quotes About Silence

Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

Does love still exist if you can't say it? If you can't admit it?

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

At first, she could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him?

What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

We were once fish! We spent millions of years under the water in silence! That's why now we love talking continuously!

Now if he could only keep him quiet for fifteen minutes they would be home and Ribsy would be his for keeps.

To remain silent would be to disconnect from her own experience, to swallow and internalize her own oppression. The cost of silence is too high.

Creating chaos provides excitement for some people, especially those who are uneasy with silence, those who distract themselves from their own problems by focusing outward, those who feel empty inside and need to fill themselves up with activity, and those who were raised in an environment in which harmony and peace were unknown.

the more i love the less i talk, because no word in the world powerful enough to express how i feel.

Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

Every tree wore a thick cloak of white, every stump and boulder a jaunty snowy cap, and there was that perfect, immense stillness that you get nowhere else but in a big woods after a heavy snowfall.

aposiopesis.

Jenny is leaning forward, wanting more, always wanting me to expound on the details of my military service. Tell them about your tour of duty. Tell them about your time as a POW. Tell them about your injuries, the torture. It was an endless struggle during the campaign, one of the things about me that tested most favorably. If my advisers had their way, it would have been just about the only thing I ever discussed. But I never gave in. Some things you just don't talk about.

Charles Crenshaw, JFK: Conspiracy of Silence, Penguin Books USA, p. 106. Renas

New Rule: The sad mime at every protest has to give it a rest. One sign you're a major annoyance: when you haven't said anything and I still want to tell you to shut the fuck up.

Instead of using the expression "It is what it is," just shut up.

Not everything has to be political. You want to heal America? Shut the fuck up for a while.

In a while, one of us will go up to bed and the other one will follow. Then we will slip below the surface of the night into miles of water, drifting down and down to the dark, soundless bottom until the weight of dreams pulls us lower still, below the shale and layered rock, beneath the strata of hunger and pleasure, into the broken bones of the earth itself, into the marrow of the only place we know.

my father) would say nothing, And I could not find a silence Among the one hundred Chinese silences That would fit the one he created Even though I was the one Who had just made up the business Of the one hundred Chinese silences- The Silence of the Night Boat. And the Silence of the Lotus, Cousin to the Silence of the Temple Bell Only deeper and softer…

A poem is an interruption of silence, whereas prose is a continuation of noise.

And there is the silence of this morning which I have broken with my pen… — Billy Collins, from "Silence," The Trouble With Poetry - And Other Poems . (Random House August 10, 2011) Originally published 2005.