Quotes About Silence

Shut your gob, You tell me nothing in my kennel. Here, I am Queen Bitch, and you will muzzle yourself. Kebibi Ahuda to prisoner

The Vazdru do not weep. Who weeps? Not I. Every word spoken was a tear.

Les Vazdru ne pleurent pas. - Chaque parole prononcée fut une larme.

And as he rested there in silence and she with gentle fingers smoothed his forehead, the strange flat earth went on about its business through the night.

silence finding how to make a sound.

A dream came by. The dream had the actor's face and his voice, but he did not speak to her and his eyes did not answer hers.

hatred and jealousy must find a tongue; only the creatures which never feel those things have no need to talk.

I do not sing songs. I sing dreams, and they are nothing. And since you'll have me sing nothing, I need not sing at all.

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

Words, words. No more words now. Here is my thirsting hand.

A depressão atormentava Ignatiev todas as noites. Pesada, desconcertante, de cabeça baixa, sentava-se na beira da cama e pegava-lhe na mão - uma enfermeira triste para um doente incurável. E passavam horas em silêncio, de mão dada.

What is known that cannot be named?

There was no life above the surface anyway.

You were overloaded. I said nothing. I said nothing. The stone man made soup. The burning woman drank it.

If you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas? The dragon was silent for a long time after this question. And at last he said: It just came over me. I don't know why. It just came over me, listening to the battling shouts and the war-cries of the earth - I got excited, I wanted to join in.

The night snows stars and the earth creaks.

The song died in his mouth.

Try talking more slowly and being in silence sometimes. To reduce overstimulating arguments, wait five seconds before responding during an intense conversation.

Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?

Laws of silence don't work.... When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant....

We have not long to love. Light does not stay. The tender things are those we fold away. Coarse fabrics are the ones for common wear. In silence I have watched you comb your hair. Intimate the silence, dim and warm. I could but did not, reach to touch your arm. I could, but do not, break that which is still. (Almost the faintest whisper would be shrill.) So moments pass as though they wished to stay. We have not long to love. A night. A day....

Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?

When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant...

We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears...