Quotes About Silence

Wir stolpern dahin, tragen ein wenig Geräusch in die Stille und wirken in anderen fort.

My father had been silent most of the time. He kissed my cheek. He told me that not many people were ordering hand-painted signs anymore, that they were all going neon, but if he had one sign he could put on the world he would say that he was Gloria's father.

We are completely isolated. We have heard nothing from Annemarie Kohler, nothing from Johannes Kohler for weeks.......A frightening silence.

It's as if there is a conspiracy of silence among men — a brotherhood — to let each other off the hook.

Quand on voir ce qu'on fut sur terre et ce qu'on lassie/ Seul le silence est grand tout le reste est faiblesse.

Le Silence est la Poésie meme pour moi.

Le Silence est la Poésie même pour moi.

Y entonces, después de dar unos pasos en silencio, un prisionero le dijo a otro: ¡Qué bello podría ser el mundo!

A long time elapsed, and the parents had not mentioned the name of their dead child. They never spoke of the little girl they had lost; their sorrow would have become doubly heavy if it had been brought out into clear daylight, and its power acknowledged. Now they tried to push it away, not let it penetrate beyond thought. As long as words didn't help, why use them? Exchanged between two mourning people, they were only a dissonant sound, disturbing the bitter consolation of silence.

One of his favorite quotes had been from Ben Franklin: Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

One of his favorite lines was that talking is overrated.

Et tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus...

pledge of a love that were better unnamed

Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

I want to write a novel about Silence, he said; "the things people don't say.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

When you are silent you are again beautiful.

I want to write a novel about silence. The things people don't say.

But he could not bring himself to say he loved her; not in so many words.)

Yet he too obsessed me for years. Until I wrote it out, I would find my lips moving; I would be arguing with him; raging against him; saying to myself all that I never said to him. How deep they drove themselves into me, the things it was impossible to say aloud.

As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind. Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Where there is nothing, Peter Walsh said to himself; feeling hollowed out, utterly empty within. Clarissa refused me, he thought. He stood there thinking, Clarissa refused me.

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.