Quotes About Silence

When I was a girl my mother said I chattered like a magpie even in my sleep, as if I knew one day the words would all be stopped, wine corked up in a bottle.

The unspoken words in the hearts of traumatized people reminding God to act to the evil of this World

No woman has ever stepped on Little America -- and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.

The day was dying, the night being born-but with great peace. Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it! That was what came out of the silence -- a gentle rhythm, the strain of a perfect chord, the music of the spheres, perhaps.

The night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world.

Los madrugadores afantasmaban, todo en silencio, como si el lenguaje no se hubiera inventado todavía, ateridos, mojados.

I am thinking, yes, about mute thunder. The honey of twilight.

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

The old poets knew all along: the wilderness has an awful tongue, which teaches doubt.

she thought how funny that the first thing you didn't need was the words you said.

Language is the charnel house of man.

A verdade é que a morte é uma brutalidade terrível - não pode haver ilusões a esse respeito -, não apenas como acontecimento físico, mas, ainda muito mais, como acontecimento psíquico: uma pessoa é-nos arrebatada e o que fica é um gélido silêncio sepulcral.

The training consists: first of all in systematic exercises for eliminating critical attention, thus producing a vacuum in consciousness.

In Joe's experience, the person who talked the most very often had the least to say.

Saeed didn't need to answer. Instead, he turned to the

He'd lowered

Larry didn't agree, but he didn't argue.

and entered the back of the building. She

justifying their positions in the name of God, men silence God.

De vez em quando eu vou ficar esperando você numa tarde cinzenta de inverno, bem no meio duma praça, então os meus braços não vão ser suficientes para abraçar você e a minha voz vai querer dizer tanta, mas tanta coisa que eu vou ficar calada um tempo enorme. só olhando você, sem dizer nada só olhando e pensando: "meu Deus, mas como você me dói de vez em quando…

Quis contar, não valia a pena. Ninguém entenderia.

E se o telefone tocar diga que eu morri, que estou mortinho da silva, estirado no chão da sala com o coração na mão. Diga que retirei meu coração com a mão – ele estava doendo demais.