Quotes About Silence

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing? Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

The less said the better.

You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.

Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…

each found her greatest safety in silence…

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

They went to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was bringing in all the grandeur which so flat a shore admitted. They praised the morning; gloried in the sea; sympathized in the delight of the fresh-feeling breeze- and were silent...

Muchas veces, los hechos hablan tan claramente que no precisan palabras.

She could not be complying, she dreaded being quarrelsome; her heroism reached only to silence.

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means As are within my reach. You pierce my soul.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence

Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject.

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.

Poor Edward muttered something; but what it was, nobody knew, not even himself.

Mi afecto y mis anhelos no han variado; pero una palabra suya me hará callar para siempre Mr. Darcy

As long as you need time to think my affections and wishes are unchanged, and one word from you will silence me forever on this subject .

Las personas que como yo padecen de los nervios no tienen muchas ganas de hablar. ¡Nadie imagina mi sufrimiento! Pero siempre ha sido igual. Si uno no se queja, nadie le compadece.