Quotes About Silence

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.

God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.

Everyone hears what you say, Friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you dont say.

Some hearts understand each other even in silence.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings, but silence breaks your heart.

The only successful substitute for brains is silence.

The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.

Everyone does it." "But no one talks about it," Gloria said. "About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

Sometimes when you are hearing what you do not want to be hearing then everything in your body stops to working and all you can be doing is looking because unless you are blind then your eye never stop looking. That is how I am looking because my mouth is not working enough for me to speak and even my leg are hardly working for me to move.

No it ain't nothing left to say. —Oddisee, "Tomorrow Today

My father and I look up and then at each other. I can feel my heart separate from the rest of my body. I want to hand it to frothing old man in front of me and say, take it. It's yours, because it has always been yours, if not for your sperm, your food, and the school fees that you pay on my behalf, then who and where would I be? Nothing. I am because you are. I say nothing. Each word I search for flies from my brain before I can send it off my tongue.

The writer is all alone.

How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.

Sleep softly… eagle forgotten… under the stone.

The unspoken word we control. Once spoken, it controls us.

I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that?

Silence is the indispensable climate for all revelation; noise renders it absolutely impossible.

Mary Poppins's greatest precept: Never Explain.

A yawn is a silent scream.

philip closed his eyes and stood upright and immobile in the middle of the silet room. In that moment the roar of battle, the creaking wood of the siege engines, the furious galloping of the horses all faded away; he simply stood stock still and listened to his son's breathing.