Quotes About Silence

The Fermi Paradox is sometimes known as the Great Silence. The universe ought to be a cacophony of voices, but instead it is disconcertingly quiet. 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 a graveyard.

Aquéllos que han leído el Libro del tiempo nunca lo admiten

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 a graveyard.

He means the Word: the sentence that, when uttered, would destroy the mind of the listener.

You could not find the places where words began and ended by listening. The sounds a person made while speaking were as smooth and unbroken as the hide of a goat's leg, but the words were like the bones underneath the meat, and the space between them was the joint where you'd cut if you wanted to separate it into pieces. By leaving spaces when he wrote, Moseby was making visible the bones in what he said.

I didn't sob, I didn't wail, I didn't whimper... because those are all things that dead people cannot do.

I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

Our words were a few colorful leaves afloat on a very old silence, the kind with a terrifying undertow, and we stood right at its edge, wrapping ourselves in our own arms because of the chill, and with old voices called back and forth across all those years until we could bear it no longer, and turned from each other, and walked away into our countries.

Te sientes así; con ganas de dejar que tus neumáticos se desinflen, de dejar a los ratones construír un nido en tu silenciador, como si fuera no más que un camión en la maleza, cacareando con pollos o pegajoso con miel o sosteniendo a un frágil anciano en tu regazo mientras contempla el camino, esperando a alguien para saludarlo.

estamos tan enfermos como los secretos que guardamos.

my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.

For Sehra who broke the silence of hypocrisy, that Allah consistently says he hates; in the dictionary meaning of Satan out of 3 – 1 is hypocrisy – So – while many misguided people around the world will condemn you – Allah will love you for following his command. I am very proud of you and can assure you that from here on you will find yourself transformed for a greater purpose. My love and prayers.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

You ain't got to run your mouth. All you got to do is let you actions speak.

If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.

You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics.

Facts do not speak.

I know things, but I shut my mouth. They don't want me to speak, so I don't speak.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Hello Kitty will never speak.