Quotes About Silence

El silencio es una risa burlona. El silencio roba algo.

I sat there silently, staring at him, and immediately ordered a third martini, one more than I usually drink.

Sometimes it is easier when you can't see your hands or your arms. Sometimes it's easier when you don't try. Because it's too hard to talk when you are trying . . too hard to say what you feel inside.

Sooner or later, every last echo fades. Even the loudest thunder in the deepest valley.

I wanted to correct her, but if I'd learned one thing by that point in my education, it was that when anybody in these cruel worlds offers a helping hand... you shut your fucking mouth and grab it.

We both instinctively knew never to share weakness until we understood it. 'Share only strength' was an unspoken motto between us.

That's the thing with the dead, they get to say nothing, forever.

She was a real quiet woman. But maybe we just weren't listening.

Meditation has become such a common element of business training that more than a thousand Googlers attended a training program called, Search Inside Yourself. Google even hosts bimonthly silent 'mindful lunches', which began after Zen monk and writer, Thich Nhat Hanh, visited Google in 2011.

But this time of the year she was in her vaults, underground, and here she resided alone, spending most of her life in darkness, like a tongue

spending most of her life in darkness, like a tongue.

Write on a screen that has no Internet access.

A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a range of low hills, they saw an endless herd of deer, rendered mute by distance. The landscape was reminiscent of a cardboard cutout, but on a huge scale, which gave the impression they were the ones who had become miniatures…All three of them were equally lost.

Quamquam scripsit artem rhetorieam Cleanthes, Chrysippus etiam, sed sic, ut si quis obmutescere concupierit, nihil aliud legere debeat.

Man is an angry, savage being. Sometimes faith becomes an excuse for battle. It is no real faith then. In justifying their positions in the name of God, men silence God.

From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was. An obstacle was there that changed the pattern of my actions and the manner of my life. An obstacle was often there to stop me when I'd begin to speak. From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing— from these alone will I be understood.

mi marido me maltrata siempre que le apetece. Me pega donde no se ve, y yo acabo pensando que, si no se ve, no ha pasado nada

My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.

As I drank my coffee, I listened attentively, but I heard nothing. I thought, maybe this is because there's too much noise in my world.

The bird still didn't move. Mrs. Yun thought it had discerned her deepest, innermost ideas. Actually, she herself didn't know exactly what those ideas were.

Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.

The vista from atop the poinciana was timeless and serene—a long string of egrets crossing the distant 'glades; a squadron of white pelicans circling a nearby bay; a pair of ospreys hovering kitelike above a tidal creek. It was a perfect picture and a perfect silence.

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

For the people in these pages who watch ad truly listen, who tell us what they are hearing in other voices that share our air, and in the silence.