Quotes About Silence

There are some things best contemplated in silence. Their proportions are so vast that speech cannot get around them.

We sit in silence, the air between bristling with words unsaid.

It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.

one who speaks my language without saying a word.

Sometimes these spirits have been more real to me than people, more real than God. They fill silence with their weight, dense and warm, like bread dough rising under cloth.

I look up into the starless sky. My heart pounds. This silent badlands scares me more than nighttime in the city, with its noise and light.

Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley. Our teacher made us memorize the words to "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and alone in the kitchen now I close my eyes and whisper Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time . . . but that's all I can remember.

It's the quiet ones who suffer most.

Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.

My tears were swallowed by the sea; Her songs died on the air.

All the best gods are made of stone and say nothing.

I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.

Ne kemi nevojë për dy burra: një të heshtur për dashuri dhe një të zgjuar, që ta dëgjojmë gjithë ditën. Ose asnjë, sepse ndjenjat që investohen qëndrojnë në një raport të papranueshëm me rezultatin.

silence across the field. When they reached the edge of the forest, Claire's anxiety faded. It really would be easier

Mine is an unusual case, although the condition is not so rare as the average person would think. It is more a problem of social taboos and the desire not to speak of the subject, because it deals with the great "hush-hush," namely, Sex.

Die eerlikste manier om die verhaal te vertel, is stilte.

Anton Webern moved composition to the brink of silence.

Le silence est aux bruits ce que l'ombre est a la lumière, ou le sommeil a la veille: une autre face indispensable.

Love Is: being able to keep your fucking mouth shut.

He whispered, breaking the silence because he could no longer bear it, daring to make a noise because a whisper was better than a scream

I know there was nothing anyone could do. But they were taking away an 86-year-old grandmother to a horrible death, and the village where she had lived all her life, where everybody loved her, had just looked on. The only thing that anyone had had to say was, 'Mrs. Bloch, don't be afraid...

At daybreak on the first day, thousands of Cambodians are already calmly waiting outside my polling station. They squat on the ground, silent and patient. We didn't expect this at all. We thought they would fail to understand how democracy works. We thought they would be afraid of the Khmer Rouge. We thought they would passively accept their fate. We were wrong.