Quotes About Silence

Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead.

Funeral grief loathes words.

...rights are not won on paper. They are won only by those who make their voices heard — by activists and militants. Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.

Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway.

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land.

The world slept, and it was like the sleep of death.

Hare-Lip sniffed and sneered and Hoo-Hoo snickered, until Edwin nudged them to be silent.

We renew our acquaintance," said Gersen in a pleasant voice. Dasce said nothing.

keeping with the laconic Mongol traditions, he warned his sons not to talk too much. Only say what needs to be said. A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words: "He can never be happy until his people are happy." He stressed to them the importance of vision, goals, and a plan. "Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

for the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess.

It seems to me that the gods are cruel to women who eat fruit, but that is a thought I keep to myself.

An awkward silence descended between us. Where did that phrase come from? I wonder. Silence descended . Descended from where exactly? Was it hovering over us like the alien spaceship in Independence Day ? Maybe it wasn't really silence so much as it was the smothering weight of something unsaid, words we'd kept at bay, kept in the air, by talking about other things.

You should not be here, the forest whispered behind us. You do not belong here.

It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. Come on.

There were barbs on the words, his formal address. I endured them in silence and watched him go, leaving me alone with the remorseless pleasure of my pain.

Another silence fell between us, a silence stretching toward awkwardness.

Qué importa ya si me he quedado muda en un mundo en donde no tengo nadie con quien hablar?

Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.

Maisie gathered her thoughts and sought to banish the sound of nothing at all

The Rule of Benedict, the fourth rung of humility requires us to hold fast to patience with a silent mind, especially when facing difficulties, contradictions—and even any injustice.

When you are sitting in silence, you open the door to a deeper wisdom--the knowing of the ages. When you are walking, with the path to that wisdom already carved anew by your daily practice, you find that an idea, a thought, a notion, comes to you, and you have the solution to a problem that seemed insoluble.

I trust Robinson, so I will go ahead," said Davenham. Maisie moved back to the desk, and looked down at her notes, then to the rooftops where pigeons were busy returning to newly built nests, before she brought her attention back to the man in the leather chair before her. "Yes, Mr. Davenham. I will, too." Maisie allowed her acceptance of the case to be underlined by another moment of silence.

Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on the page.