Quotes About Silence

Love writes without words.

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much.

When words lose the value... nothing is left!

And I learned that sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response. The words said it all.

Silent words are heard through eyes.

...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...

Unless you are silent, you will notknow your urgent heart, how it beatsbetween the thin skin of yes and no.

she has cratersbut only a fool can deny her beauty.She silently stare sun whole night& reflects his lighthis love with stars at times.

She won't know it if I'm not say it." Say that 3 times, and you should know what's the main problem.

Even silence tends to scream in a strained relationship.

I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons.

I want you. But I'm scared to say it out loud. And it sucks because I've always been someone who always says things out loud.

And if her heart was breaking with every step she took, at least he would never know.

Then there were so many things to be said that they did not speak of any of them.

One might think that living in an all-female society would have prepared me for this eventuality. But the opposite was true. No one ever discussed intimate matters. I didn't have the faintest idea of what was happening to me.

Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I've never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn't.

Asculta atunci cu toat? fiin?a ei, asculta pesemne zvonuri din noapte, pe care eu nu le puteam prinde...

An angry discussion followed, during which belligerent ministers, who had come to the convention in an attempt to disrupt it, read aloud passages from the Bible to disprove Antoinette Brown's contention of equality. They read passages like Let your women be silent in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, and Likewise, ye wives, be in subection to your own husbands.

We stopped talking for a long, long time. A long time. Nurses came and went attaching and detaching things. Hundreds of thousands of babies were born while we weren't talking. The continents continued to separate at the same page as fingernails growing.

The truth is, I don't have a catchy method of conversing and yet, unfortunately, suffer on a minute-to-minute basis the agony of the unexpressed thought.

When I was living alone in Montreal, heartbroken over a lost love, she sent me a quote from Paul Valéry. One word per letter, though, so it took me months to figure out. Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm… you will triumph.

I don't have a catchy method of conversing and yet, unfortunately, suffer on a minute-to-minute basis the agony of the unexpressed thought.

Demano un breu respir. L'Ona Friesen em torna a mirar encuriosida, potser el que la intriga és la idea d'un «respir» (de ben segur que és una paraula que no havia sentit mai, ni en una traducció), o potser l'encurioseix la idea d'un respir sostingut, l'exquisida angoixa del pensament no expressat, de la narració de la vida, del fil que lliga, que ferma, que reté. Un respir, un alè, sostinguts. La narrativa. Les dones me'l concedeixen.

A la hija pequeña de Salome, Miep, la violentaron los hombres entre dos y tres veces distintas, pero Peters ha prohibido que la niña, que tiene tres años, reciba tratamiento médico, alegando que el médico difundiría rumores sobre la colonia y la gente sabría lo de las agresiones y convertirían todo el incidente en un escándalo.