Quotes About Silence

There was a tiny silence, only the soft hum of the fluorescence. I thought of her in the cold ruined house, with night birds keening above her and rain gentle all around, dying of breathing

Have fun, she wanted to say, but it might sound dismissive, so she said nothing. He took her silence as a sign of her disappointment to being deprived the glory of his presence. "Don't worry," he said. "I won't be late. Why don't you put on a little sumpin' sumpin' and surprise me.

Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.

We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature.

It was better to talk, which would be a helluva lot easier if he would just talk back a little. Damn it, it was like pulling a teeth to get him to say anything. Like right now. He'd gone completely silent on her again, leaving the ball in her court, where the ball had been for the last half an hour.

You know what happens to people who ask questions. And you know what happens to people who answer them.

Neither of us says anything. Why would we? There is nothing to say.

Hjarta mitt? Det er mørkt og stygt i hjarta mitt. Ikkje nemn det.

he returned to his barricaded silence, locking me out of his world. The unfathomable, inscrutable East, I thought. I was cut adrift from the shores of understanding. The sea spread itself before me, leading to a blank, blank horizon.

details of my afternoon, staying silent until I mentioned the

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

I wanted to cry, but the tears did not come.

She bent her chin to her chest. She mumbled something I did not catch. It sounded like, "Shame on us all for not having stopped it.

You were a quiet man, yet you took up a vast amount of silent space and that was what I missed.

In the private library of my spirit, there is a dictionary of words that aren't.

But neither of us closed our eyes against the immeasurable dark of that silent night.

I kissed her finger near the base, where my ring once rested. "Georgia," I said, beginning a sentence I couldn't bear to complete. "I tried," she began. "Shhh . . . Just sleep, Georgia. Just sleep." But neither of us closed our eyes against the immeasurable dark of that silent night.

De qué tenéis miedo?– pero ellas no contestaron y se limitaron a mirarla furtivamente, y Aspasia comprendió que temían darle un nombre a su terror, no fuera a acudir como ante una llamada.

There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

Say nothing if you don't understand, stay silent if you do.

Some humans theorize that intelligent species go extinct before they can expand into outer space. If they're correct, then the hush of the night sky is the silence of the graveyard.

The hush of the night sky is the silence of a graveyard.

Hillalum said nothing. For the first time, he knew night for what it was: the shadow of the earth itself, cast against the sky.

our every utterance will reduce the amount of air left for thought and bring us closer to the moment when our thoughts cease altogether. Will it be preferable to remain mute to prolong our ability to think, or to talk until the very end? I don't know.