Quotes About Silence

The whole place seemed wrapped in isolated autumn silence.

A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be .

Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can't send any other way can be heard.

Emo Mimes: They rock out to mute blank tapes next door.

Zen is what remains when words and ideas run out. · What we see and smell and hear is real, it reminds us; what we think about that is not. · In much the same spirit, the Japanese aesthetic is less about accumulation than subtraction, so that whatever remains is everything.

More important than learning to speak Japanese when you come to Japan is learning to speak silence. My neighbors seem most at home with nonverbal cues, with pauses and the exchange of formulae. What is the virtue of speaking Japanese, Lafcadio Hearn noted, if you cannot think in Japanese?

This road No one on it As autumn ends

The birds sang in the dust in an elaborate weave, ambiguous, deafening, prey to existence poor passions lost between the modest summits of groves of mulberry and elder; and I, like them, in secluded places reserved for the lost and pure, would wait for evening to fall, for the silent smells of fire and joyous misery to fill the air, for the Angelus bell to toll, veiled in the new peasant mystery fulfilled in the ancient mystery.

When it's harder to live, is life more absolute? On my mute senses evening shores, also mute is the old reason defining my selfhood: it is an inner path a silent underwood where all is nature. Toilsome labor of obscure existence, you alone are necessary... And gently you drive me beyond human boundaries

e con me porto un vento di paesaggi, una superba leggerezza, un candido coraggio di straniero. E tu non spandi che silenzio. O sconosciuto ch'eri tutto: il ragazzo perduto nella casa, il giovane borghese che cullava i falsi amori dell'amato cuore, ora sei nulla, IL NULLA , il puro errore.

Forse è scoppiata, la Bomba, fuori dalla mia coscienza. Anzi, è così certamente. E la fine del Mondo è già accaduta: una cosa muta, calata nel controluce del crepuscolo. Ombra, chi opera in questa èra. Ah, sacro Novecento, regione dell'anima in cui l'Apocalisse è un vecchio evento!

Fra Leo e Thomas è ormai sorta, e incomincia a crescere di minuto in minuto, una energia che trae forza solo da sé stessa, da quei contatti fintamente causali, da quegli sfioramenti leggeri, da quegli sguardi muti. Non si sono ancora parlati. Le parole non sono contemplate in questo momento per entrambi primordiale, arcaico, in cui la vita chiama la vita attraverso la più profonda energia della specie.

In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence ("Roundness")

Making people fear the expression of their own power is a very effective way of disempowering them. It is not just those who feel the frustration of being silenced: it also encompasses every person who has no idea of their own power to realise their visions because they have not seen this in action in their communities.

When I was first in the hospital, some of my visitors seemed so intent on not upsetting me that they avoided the topic of cancer altogether. Others just couldn't seem to find any words.

Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.

Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.

Vocal rest is awesome. It is like any kind of fast. Firstly, it is a purification of speech. It made me realize how not careful I am with the things I say. It also makes you find new ways of communication and new methods to connect with people.

Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.

When I come off stage, I just shut up. I try as best I can not to use my voice at all. You know I love to talk, but I try when I come off stage to have the minimum amount of vocal interaction because I need at least a good 10 hours to just recover from my form of extreme singing.

I'm one of those guys who, when I'm frustrated, do not get vocal.

The Ahmaud Arbery video was the final straw for me in being silent. That shook me to the core like nothing has in the past. Something flipped inside of me to be more vocal and stand up for racial equality and make sure we get a hold on that and change the face of this world and get it to a better place.