Quotes About Silence

En las largas horas de silencio se me atropellan los recuerdos, todo me ha sucedido en el mismo instante, como si mi vida entera fuera una sola imagen ininteligible.

sólo quedaban sobre la cama dos criaturas desvalidas, con la memoria ausente, flotando en el vacío terrible de tantas palabras calladas.

Si pudiera permanecer inmóvil, sin hablar ni pensar, sin suplicar, llorar, recordar o esperar, si pudiera sumergirme en el silencio más completo, tal vez entonces podría oírte, hija.

Un día más de espera, uno menos de esperanza. Un día más de silencio, uno menos de vida. La muerte anda suelta por los pasillos y mi tarea es distraerla para que no encuentre tu puerta.

My life has consisted of challenging authority, which I was taught as a young girl. Life is only noise between two abysmal silences. Silence before birth, silence after death.

Se había secado las lágrimas, pero había vuelto a la mudez con la resignación de quién nunca ha tenido control sobre su existencia.

There are a lot of good people in the world but they keep quiet about it, it's bad ones that make noise a lot if noise and they get noticed.

The whole Orion zeitgeist, of treating filmmakers as partners, to me it's inseparable from the success of 'Silence of the Lambs'.

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

I understand what it can feel like when people are bullying you, and you can't just seem to catch a break, and people don't see who you are. And people completely paint their own picture. And you're supposed to zip it and just go along with whatever they say.

If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies.

A role needs a certain tone, so your own tone also changes. It's not like I lock myself up in a room to get into the zone. It is based on what I am feeling, because the minute you try too much, weird things happen. Of course, for an intense role you need some silence, and you need to do a lot of thinking.

It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.

The fair request ought to be followed by the deed, in silence.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

O golden Silence, bid our souls be still, and on the foolish fretting of our care lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!

Never give advice unless asked.

The body says what words cannot.

When words leave off, music begins.

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

The fewer the words, the better prayer.

To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.

Too often when conscience tries to speak, the line seems to be busy.