Quotes About Silence

Quando tutto sarà finito sono sicuro che mi verrà concesso un minuto per ripensare a tutte le volte che volevo urlare cosa sentivo, ma sono stato zitto per paura di non essere capito, e rimpiangerò gli obbiettivi che ho abbandonato perché il timore di fallire mi ha impedito di perseguirli. Questa vita è una puttana e probabilmente mi spezzerà il cuore, ma cazzo, sono innamorato.

tonight this room is smoky and I am alone listening to the silence. I am tired of waiting on life, it was so slow to arrive and so quick to leave. the streets and the cities are empty, love is on the damned cross and death laughs in the back room. at the edge, the edge, the edge.

but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive

Todos los domingos la gente venía y aspiraba aquel olor a meado y nadie decía nada. Quería hablarle al cura acerca de ello, pero no podía. Quizás fueran los cirios.

the best writers have said very little and the worst, far too much.

?utao sam, jer kad mrziš, ne možeš da moliš...

Lo más agradable de él era que nunca hablaba, a menos que se le preguntara algo. Nunca le pregunté nada.

The best way to think is not at all

My father didn't like people. He didn't like me. "Children should be seen and not heard," he told me.

He didn't talk much but I didn't talk much either and we got along.

I najdivnija tišina nikada ranije ?uta izrodi?e se odatle, Sunce još uvek skriveno tamo negde ?eka?e na slede?e poglavlje.

aqueles que escapam do inferno nunca falam sobre isso e nada mais incomoda eles

He that speaks seldom and opportunely, being as good as his word, is the only man they love," Wood explained. Character

Everything died off and disappeared in that silent way only an eon can absorb and keep secret.

None can reply - all seems eternal now. The wilderness has a mysterious tongue, which teaches awful doubt.

I remember a funny dinner at my brother's, where, amongst a few others, were Babbage and Lyell, both of whom liked to talk. Carlyle, however, silenced every one by haranguing during the whole dinner on the advantages of silence. After dinner Babbage, in his grimmest manner, thanked Carlyle for his very interesting lecture on silence.

so all you can hear is just general leaves?

The one subject never discussed, in my experience, was race relations. The prevailing view was that there was no reason to upset the status quo, and most were willing to continue existing conditions indefinitely.

I have lived long enough in courts, old Amyas, without a murrain on you, to have found out, first, that it is not so easy to shame the devil; and secondly, that it is better to outwit him; and the only way to do that, sweet chuck, is very often not to speak your mind at all.

The silence of God's voice will make you wonder if He is even there. And the absence of God's presence will make you wonder if He even cares. He is. And He does.

She paused, staring into the void. The void, for its part, stared back unblinking.

I notice that Andy is watching our exchange with the still, silent fascination of a fly on the wall that is canny enough to be aware of the existence of swatters.

It's lovely, like the moment of stunned disbelief immediately after you finally snap and tell the world's most annoying office-mate to shut the fuck up—the moment of silence when they have no comeback and you finally had the last word.

CHAPTER 15: RAIN OF STEEL CHAPTER 16: SCHWERPUNKT PART 4: BLOOD OATHS CHAPTER 17: STATE OF SIEGE CHAPTER 18: SCORPION STARE CHAPTER 19: ASYLUM Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. —John Harington (16th century)