Quotes About Silence

My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

if I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more

Every noisy evil is missed when it is taken away.

He shortly found himself arrived at politics; and from politics it was an easy step to silence.

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion; and upon Elinor therefore the whole task of telling lies when politeness required it, always fell.

Usted es demasiado generosa para jugar con mis sentimientos. Si los suyos siguen siendo los mismos del pasado abril, dígamelo en seguida. Mi afecto y mis deseos no han cambiado, pero una palabra suya me silenciará para siempre

Ninguna de las dos tiene nada que contar; tú porque no comunicas nada, y yo porque nada escondo.

No he necesitado palabras donde las acciones han hablado por sí mismas con tanta claridad.

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

We have neither of us any thing to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing.

They stood for some time without speaking a word; and she began to imagine that their silence was to last through the two dances, and at first was resolved not to break it; till suddenly fancying that it would be the greater punishment to her partner to oblige him to talk, she made some slight observation on the dance.

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 ofsome, conversation ought to be so arranged, as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

She said no more, and they went down the other dance and parted in silence; and on each side dissatisfied, though not to an equal degree, for in Darcy's breast there was a tolerable powerful feeling towards her, which soon procured her pardon, and directed all his anger against another.

To learn to read, after all, is a descent into silence.

Silence is not acoustic. It is a change of mind, a turning around. —John Cage

I like to live spaciously, but rather plainly, in large halls with great spaces and quiet libraries. I like to wake in the morning with the sense of a great, silent garden round me.

It was probably middle-aged of me, to understand that sometimes there is nothing of any use to say.

She drank her juice and coffee as she dressed, feeling reluctant and yet relieved. The desert, a derelict gold-mining town, a day in the heat both bored and frightened her. Wide awake she could not be quite so resolute, but two days in the isolation of her work had made her value human company. She was through with silence and righteous indignation.

Hmmph, said Mrs. Walker, or rather, without speaking, she launched this hmmph into the air of the room and allowed it to float there.

We drove in a kind of wholesome silence, carrying our whole long marriage, all the hope and kindness that it represented, with us. What it felt like was sitting in Sunday school singing Jesus loves me, sitting in the little chairs, surrounded by sunlight and bright drawings, and having those first inklings of doubt, except that doubt presents itself simply as added knowledge, something new, for the moment, to set beside what is already known.

surprised. Then everyone, by unspoken

dark, wet sides of the well dropped maybe

A silence slipped in through the door and inhabited the indoor space. Then it slipped out again.