Quotes About Silence

the party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but i think they do it to make us feel important

It's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. ... you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.

The party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle

It's so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself.

Look unto the stars to teach us How the master's thoughts can reach us Each one follows Newton's math Silently along its path.

Neil: Were you strapped to a Saturn V rocket, with nine million pounds of thrust, and sent a quarter-million miles away into deep space to witness Earthrise from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve? Madalyn: No. Neil: Then shut the fuck up. In

Neil: Were you strapped to a Saturn V rocket, with nine million pounds of thrust, and sent a quarter-million miles away into deep space to witness Earthrise from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve? Madalyn: No. Neil: Then shut the fuck up.

Silence held the bubble of the world in its grip.

do all you can to stop the ungodly chatter.

It was possible to be struck dumb by all sorts of emotions, not only surprise, and as they drove back toward Pittsford, Amina thought that there ought to be a whole set of words to encompass all those different varieties of silence.

We entered the house, and there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast.

and there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast. Five, four, three, two, one.

The wineries attract tourists who like to talk about wine. I mean, do I talk about beer? It's beer. Drink it and shut up.

In the quiet serenity of the night that did not seem very important; it was only important that she should shut up and not spoil his evening. "Now you get on and start her up, and shut up talking." She opened her mouth to give as good as she got, but said nothing. What he had told her was incredible; and yet it was what she had secretly feared for some time.

All those cities, all those fields and farms, with nobody, and nothing left alive. Just nothing there. I simply can't take it in.

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

Stop talking. Can't you see I'm detecting?

With a slightly accentuated jaw-line, Inspector Alleyn advanced to the footlights and gazed into the swimming darkness of the stalls. Mr. Bathgate, he said. Silence. Mr. Bathgate, lied Alleyn, I can see you. You're not looking in my direction at all, declared an indignant voice. Come

Love is Noise. Love is silence. In love you're human. In love you possess magical powers. In love you shelter yourself. In love, you expose yourself.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.

There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.