Quotes About Silence

At some point you do not need to talk to have a conversation. The conversation exists whether you have it or not. It continues silently in a parallel dimension of the marriage. They both pause to let it run its course toward another stalemate.

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

Those who participate in a genocide as well as those who merely look away rarely volunteer much in the way of anecdote or observation. Same with the heroic and the righteous. Usually it's only the survivors who speak-and often they don't want to talk much about it either. p. 75

This life is a deafening roar but listen. You could hear a pin drop.

Every bitter joule of rage had been converted into speed. She was empty. There was no pain. The air whistled past her ears. She listened intently. That silent music was all there was. It was the sound of the universe showing her mercy.

lips, excused from their color, had formed words relieved of their sound.

She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.

It was how mothers carried on, after all, with a glint in the eye that implied a sure clairvoyance and also that it was your turn to talk. This was the velvet rope mothers offered: enough silence to make a noose with. Mary

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

Your cowboy persona meshed so well with the dreams Chris has of the torn and silent men she's been rejected by. The fact that you don't return messages turns your answerphone into a blank screen onto which we can project our fantasies.

Because she does not express herself in theoretical language, no one expects too much from her and she is used to tripping out on layers of complexity in total silence.

If wisdom's silence then it's time to play the fool.

S: But Chris, I think his embarrassment isn't in relation to you or me but to himself. What can he do? C: I hate being thrown into such a physical state. S: Isn't that experiencing life to the hilt? C: No, it's just a dumb infatuation. I'm so ashamed. S: But even if his silence hurts you, isn't that what attracted you to him? The fact that he was inaccessible. So, I think there is a contradiction there, at least nothing to feel ashamed of -.

I hate it hen people I love refuse to speak to me.

Even the bureaucracy does not shatter the stillness.

Linda waited, knowing Knox would fill the silence. On average, men tended to interrupt a woman after eight seconds. If a woman didn't talk, most men couldn't last four seconds, according to social scientists with government funding and a stopwatch.

I'm kind of relieved I don't have to say anything on TV about tragedies anymore. ~ JON STEWART

I dreamt of Eric, in his Filas, chilling against his sister's car. Then I dreamt of him on the ground, wanting to talk, but with nothing left to say.

The sunken place, right? That's where I was. The place where nobody can touch you or hear you scream.

The graveyard shift was his favorite time of night.

Walter was all alone in a huge, empty room with no windows.

I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside of me.

Bal gibi tatl? sesi vard? ama, gereksiz konu?may? sevmezdi.