Quotes About Silence

Most of all I remember the three of them operating during that time as if they were a single person, sharing a single meal, a single body, a single silence, and a single fear.

In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.

It's not the type of thing Bengali wives do. Like a kiss or caress in a Hindi movie, a husband's name is something intimate and therefore unspoken, cleverly patched over. And so, instead of saying Ashoke's name, she utters the interrogative that has come to replace it, which translates roughly as "Are you listening to me?

Something happened when the house was dark. They were able to talk to each other again. The

He adjusted his body in relation to hers. His head angled down, his hand forming a canopy between them to shield her face from the sun. It was a useless gesture. only silence. The sunlight on her hair

Without saying a word to each other we know that, if we chose to, we could venture into something reckless, also pointless.

Most of all I remember the three of them operating during that time as if they were a single person, sharing a single meal, a single body, a single silence, and a single fear. -When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine

Something happened when the house was dark. They were able to talk to each other again.

Were her mother ever to stand before her, even if Bela could choose any language on earth in which to speak, she would have nothing to say. But no, that's not true. She remains in constant communication with her. Everything in Bela's life has been a reaction. I am who I am, she would say, I live as I do because of you.

Though they are home they are disconcerted by the space, by the uncompromising silence that surrounds them. They still feel somehow in transit, still disconnected from their lives, bound up in an alternate schedule, an intimacy only the four of them share.

But his father is not the type to admit such things, to speak openly of his desires, his moods, his needs.

There are some people who are very powerful who I will never name, because I want to be able to work in this town.

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

Yet, when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.

I've always been a writer, actually. Not many people assume that, but I kinda keep quiet about anything that I do until I'm ready to show it. It keeps me humble and also makes me work towards a goal.

Interested in some 'undercover' work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

Thought will not work except in silence.

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

I don't discuss works in progress.