Quotes About Silence

In listening to a subliminal tape, a person listens to 'nothing' to achieve 'something.' When a person plays a subliminal tape there exists in that person's being an Intention. That intention is then projected into the Great Silence of the unheard subliminals. The subliminals are in a sense words from the Realm of No-Thought, in that they aren't heard by the conscious mind. From this realm of Voidness springs all manifestation.

In listening to a subliminal recording, a person listens to 'nothing' to achieve 'something.' When a person plays a subliminal recording there exists in that person's being an Intention. That intention is then projected into the Great Silence of the unheard subliminal messages. The subliminal messages are in a sense words from the Realm of No-Thought, in that they aren't heard by the conscious mind. From this realm of Voidness springs all manifestation.

In June we picked the clover, And sea-shells in July: There was no silence at the door, No word from the sky. A hand came out of August And flicked his life away: We had not time to bargain, mope, Moralize, or pray.

La mayoría de los muertos callan. Ya no dicen nada. Literalmente ya lo han dicho todo. Pero no sucede así con los poetas. Los poetas siguen hablando

the psychobabble spelled out in magazines, the imaginary divans we would never wish to lie on ourselves, all they do is hold up mirrors in which not a single truth is revealed, because the truth is always trounced by the lie. Was Heinz a liar by saying nothing? Did he drink because he never stopped telling lies?

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.

The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you.

Dreaming of his future, he no longer heard all the things she did not say.

No one, she had learned from experience, could stand such silence for long. If you waited long enough, someone would start talking, and more often than not they would give you a chance to press further, to crack the conversation open and scoop out what you needed to know.

How he'd asked for a telescope for his fourteenth birthday and received a clock radio instead; how he'd saved his allowance and bought himself one. How, sometimes, at dinner, Nath never said a word about his day, because their parents never asked.

She waited, letting the uneasy silence grow. No one, she had learned from experience, could stand such silence for long. If you waited long enough, someone would start talking, and more often than not they would give you a chance to press further, to crack the conversation open and scoop out what you needed to know.

The librarian sighs. How can you know, she says, if no one teaches you, and no one ever talks about it, and all the books about it are gone?

Neither ever mentioned this most tender hope.

There is so much they need to say.

He understood everything she did not say, which at its core was: Don't let go .

Her brother himself stood silent, awed and grateful, 1981 glistening in his eyes like a beautiful far-off star, and something wobbled inside Lydia and tumbled into her chest with a clang.

The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you - whether because you didn't get to have your say, or because the other person never got to hear you and really wanted to.

glowering Izzy in the backseat. No one

protegía su amistad como un dragón su tesoro: en silencio y con avaricia.

The sound of his car as it whines out of the driveway, then speeds away, has the ring of finality; all of them hear it. Silence settles over the house like ash.

The little bird in his throat had died and swelled so that he could hardly breathe.

The rush of things she wanted to say churned in her head.

Later, slowly, they will piece together other things that have never been said.

Mi par di essere un'ombra tra le ombre degli alberi. Più mi scaldo a questo sole e mi nutro a questa terra, più mi pare di sciogliermi in stille e brusii, nella voce del lago, nei ringhi del bosco.