Quotes About Silence

Guard your tongue before it digs your grave.

No beast was as noisy as man.

Keep your mouth shut and do as I tell you, and maybe we'll even be in time for your uncle's bloody wedding.

They have been with you every day, my lord. Sansa prays quietly, but Arya …" He hesitated. "She has not said a word since they brought you back. She is a fierce little thing, my lord. I have never seen such anger in a girl.

The sound of their voices mingled with the whicker of horses, the clank of steel, and the groaning hinges of the great bronze gates to make a strange and fearful music. In the sept they sing for the Mother's mercy but on the walls it's the Warrior they pray to, and all in silence.

Until what? Foolish woman, will holding it secret in our heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good.

Learn to use your ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am.

In the cool weak light the nightflames all had died, and the silent streets echoed death and desolation. Worlorn's day. Yet it was twilight.

Money buys a man's silence for a time. A bolt in the heart buys it forever.

No one sang up there. No one ever laughed too loud. Even the gods were silent.

be careful what you say. The gods may not be the only ones listening.

Firelight gleamed golden in the stiff whiskers that framed Lord Tywin's face. A vein pulsed in his neck, but he did not speak. And did not speak. And did not speak.

It's the loneliness of people trapped within themselves. The loneliness of people who have said the wrong thing so often that they don't have the courage to say anything anymore.

The time to speak of the cold is not when we are standing put in it.

It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.

Vannak titkok, amelyeket sohasem szabad kimondani, szégyenteljes dolgok, amelyeket jobb, ha az ember magával visz a sírba.

Deliberately, women are given a deplorable education…. While man frees himself from constraining civil and religious bonds, he is only too glad to have woman hold tightly to the Christian principle of suffering and keeping her silence.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

Never assume that loud is strong and quiet is weak?

Chester's playing filled the station. Like ripples around a stone dropped into still water, the circles of silence spread out from the newsstand. And as people listened, a change came over their faces. Eyes that looked worried grew soft and peaceful; tongues left off chattering; and ears full of the city's rustling were rested by the cricket's melody.

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.