Quotes About Silence

From what I can gather, there's quite a lot you don't like talking about!

Finnigin, you are guilty of great presumption! Just because Babooshpet did not speak to you, did not necessarily mean she lacked the ability to do so.

Daniel's silence had been eloquent on the other end of the line. Shem was reminded that his vizier was five years older now; a boy no longer and perhaps not quite so malleable as in the past.

She had learned to be quite adept at hurt silences.

The group began to move, circling slowly, feeling with their hands for an invisible boundary. They were claiming the space for their own. There were no words, no verbal summoning of the elements. To Ari, this was something new; the silent, spiralling bodies describing the parameters of their temple. Then one by one, each member of the group spun in the middle of the circle, describing with gestures the sanctity of the chosen space, slowly whirling shapes of rags and hair.

At his appearance, the environment around him seemed to slow to utter stillness, and become bleached of colour.

For a few moments the pair of them shared a single terror; a look passed between them.

As one, the silent gathering slid out onto the balcony, human patrons in pursuit.

Strange how people so seldom said what they felt.

The past lay between them, a stagnant flood of unspoken words and unexpressed feelings.

I did not speak again, and neither did she, but we walked together in easy silence, as friends might, along the road.

There was so much unsaid about our history; so much pain contained there.

You cannot speak, so I must ask myself a question that I know is in your heart.

He felt the sounds of life would not reach this far down, but the sounds of death would.

The High Place was special to Owen: it had always drawn him. It was as if a quiet, insistent voice spoke to his inner mind, telling him what he should do there.

You are a willing conspirator in his dreams. Understandably. He offered you sanctuary when you solely needed it. He wants to train you for a purpose, this is clear. And if you go along with that, without knowing all the facts, that is the fault of your silence rather than Taropat's secrecy, surely.

It had to come from me. He would say nothing otherwise.

Someone stood on the portico leaning on a shovel.

Logan battered to the end of 'Started Out With Nothin', drove in silence for a minute, then launched into 'Living Is a Problem Because Everything Dies'. Making up half of the words as he went along.

I'm sure that in Germany people also took an oath of secrecy. We know what that eventually led to. If it works that way with us, the sanctions for breaking the secrecy are nothing compared to the sanctions there could be if we're silent. All

But I'll tell you more about that later... or maybe I won't, because some wounds just don't heal even if you talk them out. On the contrary, the more you dress them up in words, the more they bleed.

All in all, the dead are a whole lot less trouble than the living

Since most of us are products of a culture and era where nobody likes to discuss death in case it encourages her to visit,

To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.