Quotes About Silence

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

È cosa notata che il gran dolore (come ogni grande passione) non ha linguaggio esterno.

Incaute voci Spande il tuo labbro : i destinati eventi Move arcano consiglio. Arcano è tutto, Fuor che il nostro dolor. Voix inutiles Verse ta lèvre : c'est un secret vouloir Qui meut les destinées. Tout est secret Hormis notre douleur. (Ultimo canto di Saffo, Dernier chant de Sappho)

Ci sono occasioni in cui occorre parlare e non bisogna dare nulla per scontato. Poi ci sono occasioni in cui, invece, devi rimanere in silenzio perché nell'aria c'è qualcosa d'impalpabile e prezioso, e le tue parole potrebbero disperderlo in un istante. Sono due concetti semplici. La parte difficile è decidere quando applicare una regola e quando l'altra.

Ci sono occasioni in cui occorre parlare e non bisogna dare nulla per scontato. Poi ci sono occasioni in cui, invece, devi rimanere in silenzio perché nell'aria c'è qualcosa d'impalpabile e prezioso, e le tue parole potrebbero disperderlo in un istante. Sono due concetti semplici. La parte difficile è capire quando applicare una regola e quando l'altra.

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

There's no tongue that's so tied, when tying's needed, as the one that babbles most bewhiles. Babbling covers a lot of secrets.

So it's not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don't stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.

I want to follow him over the snows between the immaculate earth and now, between the silence and the shot that rang over the ice at the top of the globe, when the map of the earth was something we knew by heart, and they had not shot the bear, had not loosed the ice, had not, had not....

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

the need to make the "strange familiar," to make the "familiar strange," and listen to social silence.

No response no reaction

A midwife knows too much . . . But if she is truly a wise woman, she knows when to keep her mouth shut.

If anyone asked either of us, we would say that we have a beautiful, happy family, and in so, so many regards we would be telling the truth. But it's what isn't on the page—what resides in the white spaces between words—that tells our story of things lost.

When you are keeping a secret from someone, and that person dies, the secret becomes impossible to dislodge from inside you.

Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.

The world had gone too quiet and the possibility that she and Lou were the only ones left alive tickled at her brain like the tiny, scuttling legs of a black spider.

She formed the words, chewed them, felt them move in her mouth, but something in her refused to speak them.

Que haya palabra y se vea su silencio, y, en este silencio, aparezca por un instante la cosa restituida a su anonimato, al no tener todavía o ya no tener nombre.

Non-being is "not to be spoken of," for it is, in the strictest sense, nowhere.

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.

Toda la música tiende al silencio.