Quotes About Silence

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters

That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles--right and wrong--throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time.

I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.

He tips his head at Tomasetti and then he's gone.

nothing? She seemed as nervous

The art of reading is to know and understand the things which go unsaid.

they kept it all hush-hush

The art of reading is to know and understand the things which go unsaid. There is as much to be learned from the spaces between, the empty lines, as there is from the words on the page. I

The thing we are trying to say is in the language of leaves.

Dans « Le Silence des autres », film documentaire d'Almuneda Carracedo et Robert Bahar, une victime franquiste confie que, sous la torture, elle réussit à résister aux coups qui lui étaient portés parce qu'elle était en colère et elle était en colère parce qu'elle était à un être humain. (l'une des deux épigraphes)

Silence may be something unusual for her—and it could take time for her to adjust to the possibilities silence provides.

I have never talked to anyone about that night. Ever...' she said. 'And now when I listen to my own words, I realise that they tell a different story from the one I have carried all these years.' The old woman closed her eyes. 'I think that if we can find the words, and if we can find someone to tell them to, then perhaps we can see things differently. But I had no words, and I had nobody.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a book. You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in a book.

The plumber plodded along in silence, like a man who has learned to be polite to lunatics through dealing with civil engineers.

Her deepest longing, perhaps, was to be loved unconditionally, and at the same time be left in peace. But she never told anyone. It is shameful and egotistical to hope for unconditional love and at the same time want to be left in peace.

There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make one's voice known as responsibly as one humanly can, and take the consequences.

A petty one, but most resentments are. And one that for its smallness I felt obliged to repress. For that matter, that is the nature of resentment, the objection we cannot express. It is silence more than the complaint itself that makes the emotion so toxic, like poisons the body won't pee away.

The moving parts of the house were all silent, its surfaces smooth. The closet doors had no handles. None of the woodwork had fixtures. Drawers had gentle indents. The kitchen cabinets pushed open and shut with a click. Franklin, the whole house was on Zoloft. You

So much lying in marriage is merely a matter of keeping quiet.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.

Bowing his head

For a long time we sit there not saying anything, enjoying the quiet of the bay and the occasional steamy knee bump.

It's clearly not a topic he wants to give any oxygen to.