Quotes About Silence

but kept their eyes straight ahead. The Gestapo captain

18. Schlegal was disappointed that the people he tortured always talked. What do you think were the motivations behind someone who talked and someone who didn't? If you were in a situation where someone was trying to get information from you, what would be the final straw to make you talk?

Look how the pale queen of the silent night Doth cause the ocean to attend upon her....

Russell Bufalino's penetrating good eye stayed on mine. I moved back up in my seat. I couldn't show anything in my face. I couldn't say a word. That's not the way it works. The wrong look in my eyes and my house gets painted. Jimmy

Giancana was taken care of in his kitchen in the back of the head and then under the chin six times, Sicilian style, to signify he was careless with his mouth. It looked like it was done by some old friend that was close enough to him to be frying sausages in olive oil with him. Russell often said to me: "When in doubt have no doubt.

Then will I lay down my head in the lap of death. Hushed will be all my murmurs in the sleep of the grave.

those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that.

Please hear what I'm not saying

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Why would anyone write a poem in this wrecked world? And really, how could they? Massive doubt, failed love, shitty thoughts, empty spirit, a dead history compelling a transfixed vision, these are devastations that might overwhelm and silence anyone; and silence, for a poet, is a prison. It's where the descent hits bottom, it's where the poet either faces or does not face all the risks of failed comprehension.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Close the door by leaving." Close the mouth by dying ... ("Ferme la porte en partant." - Ferme la bouche en mourant ...)

Death is the word that kills all the words.

Death is the word that kills all the words. (La mort est un mot - Qui tue tous les mots)

Oysters speaking doesn''t give a pearl.

Oysters speaking doesn't give a pearl. (Les huîtres qui parlent n'ont pas de perle)

Silence is an ornament which is visible from inside. (Le silence est une parure Qui se voit de l'intérieur)

The noise hides the silence. It does not destroy the silence. (Le bruit cache le silence. - Il ne détruit le silence.)

To silence the love, it takes a deaf. (Pour taire l'amour, - Il faut un sourd)

The less men think, the more they talk.

It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.