Quotes About Silence

In daylight her death had taken on a reality. It lived in the house with them, in the dust on the floors, the blankness of the ceilings, the soft, unanswered noises of his movement past her room. After

the three monkeys of lore;

Oh my god!" Travers exclaimed. "See no evil, hear no evil—

Travers was still stunned. She had never heard Wotan raise his voice, let alone yell. She didn't move a muscle.

Travers didn't say anything, but she nodded in agreement. Jade silently thanked her for being quiet. He needed quiet right now.

Then he was silent. Just like last time—one outburst and back to silence or dispassionate interaction.

He glanced at his watch. "I'm heading up to Ressler to interview the prison shrink." Travers was quiet. "I guess you can come," he said. "Just try not to talk too much." "Won't be hard with you around.

Maybe it was more than that. Maybe some things shouldn't be explained.

His ass knows more words than his mouth does.

You don't really keep vigil; it keeps you-suspended in awkward silence and dead air-desperate for anything at all to stir some hope out of these murky waters and make things vital again.

Letter 17 Morning. The snow was falling outside. There was a white silence. My mother and I sat facing my father at the dining room table. There was something impenetrable about his gaze. It was like pack ice. And the ice was thickening. I could barely see into him. I knew. And they knew that I knew. He was broken. I did not even need to look at him. I could feel his brokenness all thorough the room.

Letter 1 To the princess of the elephants, I disappeared exactly one year ago. On that day I received a letter. It called me back to the place where my life with the elephants began Please forgive me, for the silence between us has been unbroken for one year. I will never be more of myself than in these letters. They are my maps of the bird path, and they are all that I know to be true.

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

Writing often reveals us to ourselves, lets us name what's important to us and what has been silent or silenced inside us.

The way the word sinks into the deep snow of the page

When I'm struggling with the fear of my own death, or with grief over the death of someone I love, what comforts me most isn't philosophies or ideas. It's the presence of someone who loves me just sitting with me silently, letting me feel what I have to feel, not trying to fix it or make it go away but simply being with me while I feel

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

Es mejor estar callado y parecer tonto, que hablar y despejar las dudas definitivamente.

Meditation is… a state that can best be described as deep dreamless sleep while awake.

our generation hasn't made any meaningful contribution to the field. We have promoted atheism, displayed agnosticism (which amounts to an ambiguous shoulder shrug), or, in most cases, been eerily silent.

If you stick with the definition of spirituality as a peaceful internal state (a.k.a. deep, dreamless sleep while awake), then you will ignore some of the hallucinatory experiences that are bound to happen when you sit in silence (studies have shown that, in such circumstances, the mind often creates elaborate experiences and stories that are reminiscent of dreams) and refrain from interpreting them as something otherworldly.

We mean to explore kindness and its enormous silences.

We hurry since everything hurries And I shall never not return Memories are all archaic horns Silenced by the wind.