Quotes About Silence

Simple Shepherd Mortuary

I'm sorry, she thought. But she said nothing. I can't save you or anybody else from being dark.

Quando você é louco, aprende a ficar calado.

He stopped to look around. Everything was silent.

Camino a tu tumba, aún mantendrás la boca abierta para preguntar: ¿Qué es lo que he hecho?. Y serás enterrado así, con la boca abierta. Y nunca podré explicártelo, pensó Buckman. Sólo podré decirte una cosa: no llames jamás la atención de las autoridades. No nos intereses nunca. No hagas que deseemos saber cosas acerca de ti.

Sebastian sat silently and passively, like a chicken, listening.

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.

Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.

two brothers held together by what they can't share.

She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North.

If you speak to people, you just attract their attention," he said, with a shaking voice. "You should just keep quiet and still and they overlook you. I've been doing it all my life. I know how to do it. Your way, you just—you make yourself visible.

Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.

To ask the question and wait for the answer is to know that there will be no answer.

You'll be much more impressive if you stay silent and mysterious.

Malcolm drew back towards the wall. The customer who'd spoken was called George Boatwright, a high-coloured and truculent boatman whom Mr Polstead had had to throw out of the Trout half a dozen times; but he was a fair man, and he'd never spoken roughly to Malcolm. The silence in the bar now was profound, and even customers in other parts of the inn had become aware that something was happening, and had come to the doorway to watch

Well, where is God," said Mrs. Coulter, "if he's alive? And why doesn't he speak anymore? At the beginning of the world, God walked in the Garden and spoke with Adam and Eve. Then he began to withdraw, and he forbade Moses to look at his face. Later, in the time of Daniel, he was aged—he was the Ancient of Days. Where is he now?

Mientras volaba en silencio volvió la vista atrás, como si le persiguiera su miedo. Edmund Spenser

Trust chance, trust silence, trust mystery

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

The music I play after dinner is not a relief from the silence but something like its substantiation: listening to music for an hour or two every evening doesn't deprive me of the silence — the music is the silence coming true.

In short, dozens of conflicting, truncated impressions were already teasing to be understood, but the wisest course seemed to me to keep them to myself so long as I didn't begin to know what they added up to.

Though I'd never forgotten Alan, I hadn't uttered his name aloud in the many years since he'd died, back in that decade when it seemed that the greatest menaces on earth were war, the atomic bomb, and polio.

silencio es la cerca que protege la sabiduría».

Slowly but surely, there's nobody in America willing to speak out against Lindbergh's kissing Hitler's behind." "What about the Democrats?" I asked. "Son, don't ask me about the Democrats. I'm angry enough as it is.