Quotes About Silence

Quien calla una palabra es su dueño; quien la pronuncia es su esclavo.

Signori, chi ha qualcosa da dire si faccia avanti, e taccia.

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!

The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me.

I know that traditionally, monsters hang around empty places for no apparent reason—and

But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

The thunder of my heart must go Under the muffling of the dust-- As my grey dress has guarded it The grasses must; For it has hammered loud enough, Clamored enough, when all is said: Only its quiet part shall live When I am dead.

Some days, the pines upon my hills Speak nothing of their secret wills, But with an absent smile they say, "Dear, we can't talk to you today."

To you the offering of this thought, The greeting of my poetry, To you this work of solitude, O slaves of din and vanity. In silence did my sad sigh name You Cecily's unmet by me, All of you Psyches without wings, Mute sisters of my soul! God grant you, unknown family, One sacred dream mid sinful lies, In the prison of this narrow life Just one brief burst of that other life.

There, that's better. That should get him talking. But it doesn't. As more time

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Megan? Aren't you going to say anything?" her mother asked. Yeah, I'm gonna say something , Megan thought, standing up.

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.

The moon, the earth's silent, smaller sister, pulled together out of dust and rock into this magical silver companion.

Maybe the spirits don't want to be quieted.

Calwyn stopped in her tracks, and her song faltered on her lips. For the space of a heartbeat she thought she must be dreaming; the steady chantment she'd been singing without pause since dawn jerked almost into silence.

What are you going to do now?' She faced him. What I've always wanted. I'm leaving this stupid kingdom to make my fortune, like a prince in one of the tales.' They're not true you know,' Cam said quietly. Meg stared at him for a long, grim moment. Yes they are,' she hissed.... Cam spoke in the sudden silence. 'Look, Meg. I'm not saying princes don't have adventures. But I'll bet a lot of them get eaten by the first dragon they com to.

Hugh refused to leave the scene of the action. He seated himself on the top stair in the hall, banged his head against the railing a few times, just by way of uncorking the vials of his wrath, and then subsided into gloomy silence, waiting to declare war if more "first girl babies" were thrust upon a family already surfeited with that unnecessary article.

In his pocket, his silenced phone vibrated like a forgotten pleasure device.

You were alive for such a short time and then you went back into the great silence. The only ones who didn't vanish were the artists. While you were reading their words and looking at their pictures they were still alive, and you shared some of their life too.

Whatever the shadow was that lived with them, it did not belong just to him, but to her as well: it was a space they both inhabited. But it seemed there was no way to speak into that silent place. Their lives had slowly grown around it, the way the roots of a river-fig grew around a rock.

They stared at each other, their words between them like a wall.

Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.