Quotes About Silence

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

God gave you the art to talk and you will just ignore it like these?

Musicians are artists, as silence is their canvas.

Know everything. Say nothing.

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

would hear him. His lips barely moved, and then

In a field. With the moon. And the dark. And the dirt. With your mouth. And just one word: god god god.

The muffling blanket would fall over my thoughts.

It's the darkness when a light is quenched, the silence when a sound fades. It takes the final breath from the smallest insect and the mightiest king. It knows us all, stalks us all, and in the end claims us all.

The dead are the best listeners in the world. The corpse takes it all in, never interrupts, doesn't criticize me, lets me waffle on for as long as I like.

Everyone in the Hall knows what's really happening, but as long as it looks as if everything is in order, nobody will object.

nobody in the entire world will ever say anything to me again.

The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second "you.

Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.

This is the peculiar problem of constant connectivity: any silence of more than a few hours provokes apocalyptic thoughts.

Ecco lo strano problema della costante connettività: ogni silenzio che duri più di qualche ora suscita pensieri apocalittici.

Pius XII was known for his outspoken warnings to the faithful against the abuse of human rights,19 yet he was silent about the Holocaust. He never spoke a public word against Hitler's systematic extermination of the Jews, because to do so would have condemned his own Church for its similar deeds. This silence, historians agree, encouraged Hitler and added to the unspeakable genocide.

Rule #9: You're unlikely to regret much of what you don't say.

I love the night. Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep. It's dark and silent in the house, but if I listen close, I hear the beat beat beat of my heart. I hear the creak and crack of the house. I hear my mum breathing gently in her sleep in the room next door.

Anyone who believes they have converted a person simply because they have silenced them is badly mistaken We must try not to be drawn into the game of deceiving the deceivers

When in doubt, say nothing. When not in doubt, double down on that advice.

lay there, listening for the squeaks of the final

if she was in a library.