Quotes About Silence

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.

Annie - although she also knew that those who don't speak have to pay it off in thinking - was resolved on silence. Whatever happened, and after all she was obliged to see Mr brooks two or three times every day, though she by no means looked forward to it, feeling herself more truly alive when she could picture him steadily without seeing him - whatever happened, he needn't know how daft she was.

They started with Big Ben. It's always got to be relayed direct from Westminster, the real thing, never from disc. That's got to be firmly fixed in the listeners' minds. Then, if Big Ben is silent, the public will know that the war has taken a distinctly unpleasant turn.

in every created thing, whether it is alive or whether is what we usually call inanimate, there is an attempt to communicate, even among the totally silent. There is a question being asked, a different question for every entity, which for the most part will never be put into words, even by those who can speak.

Sometimes thoughts merely pass through a man's head without mishap, but sometimes they fall out of his mouth on the way through.

As he rested in the great hollow shell of tranquility and light, listening to its silence, it dawned upon him that 'empty' was the wrong word for this place. It was as full as could be: full of silence, full of light, full of peace. There

the trouble was he had nothing to say, but he loved saying it.

Don't wear yourself out Dad. Is that your way of telling your old man to shut up?

What have we done?' he asked, but there was no one to answer him.

The air itself is one vast library, on whose pages are for ever written all that man has ever said or woman whispered.

what think you of that, Nick, since you allwaies have your Head stuck in old Books? And I said nothing, for who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?

The love that dares not speak its name has never stopped talking.

My Voice grew faint through the Curtain of my Pain.

Listen first, speak last.

it was "decidedly instructive" to contemplate "the ease with which one-half of the population of the country were suddenly deprived of the right of speech, the right to read, and one might almost say the right to think.

Shame, and its offspring, secrecy. The

La agradable sensación de no tener que hablar, de dejar que pase el silencio general, mirando el mar u otra cosa, o incluso nada.

I no longer understand anything literally. I cannot wait until I wake up, whereas earlier I could not wait to fall asleep. I have been made to speak. I have been sentenced to reality. - Do you hear it? (Silence.) Can you hear? (Silence.) Psst. (Silence.)

En otras ocasiones ella hacía con sus relatos planes para el futuro: <>. Ahora callaba. Intentó conmoverla con recuerdos comunes, pero tampoco respondió a ellos. Las antiguas bromas, que siempre la hacían reír, la dejaron impertérrita. ¡No quería seguir los juegos tácitamente acordados!

En otras ocasiones ella hacía con sus relatos planes para el futuro: «Un día iré contigo a ese restaurante; a esa costa viajaremos juntos la próxima vez». Ahora callaba. Intentó conmoverla con recuerdos comunes, pero tampoco respondió a ellos. Las antiguas bromas, que siempre la hacían reír, la dejaron impertérrita. ¡No quería seguir los juegos tácitamente acordados!

I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers.

Usually I said nothing at all; as a waiguoren I was often most comfortable when I was listening.

Talk is cheap and easy; making dreams real takes hard, humble work. Dreams in the Midwest are acceptable, just keep them to yourself. Maybe tell your family, but don't just talk—do something about it.

Those who know, do not say; those who say, do not know.