Quotes About Silence

Insanity triumphed because sane people were silent.

The saint maintains his piety through the graphic imagination of other people's vices. We thank him for it. The saint's impossible perfection allows us to go on being gargoyles while keeping our faith alive. We admire him for it. The saint's silence covers far more than our interpretations of it.

Electronic Nocturne The TV goes dead, killing all the newscasters. Go, loud satraps of the night, leave us alone with darkness and ourselves.

fire pon rome- the rastaman did sing this truth, and like so many he suffered the consequences in babylon. Babylonian catholicism tried to silence him, yet rome was destroyed by nero in an a.D. 64 fire.- the truth.

My steps were muffled. It was quiet, so quiet that I felt as if I did not walk but instead crawled in silence. The snow covered everthing and I walked above cotton, on silent carpets, on beach sand. Softness is temporary and deceiving. It gently receives you and gently expels you.

Montag, you're looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the "guilty," but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

One uttered word of explanation is wrong,

La tristeza es algo constante. Las canciones se dedican a tapar la tristeza igual que el ruido tapa el silencio. Así que cuando las canciones se acaban, vuelve la tristeza.

The silence of winter has already been broken by birdsong from crossbills, heralding the onset of spring. At one with the forest. For this man, the boreal forest is his home, his provider and he looks to the forest for the things he needs to live. He has no sense of isolation. He is a simple talker. This

[L]ike those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there.

What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.

1) Remain silent you share of the time (more rather than less). 2) Be attentive while others are talking. 3) Say what you think but be careful not to hurt others' feelings. 4) Avoid topics not of general interest. 5) Say little or nothing about yourself personally, but talk about others there assembled. 6) Avoid trying to instruct. 7) Speak in as low a voice as will allow others to hear.

History texts say much about spinning bees and boycotts—but why so little about women being looted, raped, widowed, and left homeless?94

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

Don't complain, don't explain.

You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.

Inquiétant, non, un homme qui ne dit rien. Je ne sais pas si vous l'avez constaté, mais quand un homme ne dit rien alors que tout le monde parle, on n'entend plus que lui! Redoutable !

And so we must dig in to see where raw words and fundamental sounds are buried so that the great silence within can finally be decoded.

Spiders' teeth are not so long as a torment that cannot be avowed.

Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.

I always try to stay quiet and calm.

If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.

What can be shown, cannot be said.